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Ron Paul Defends Campaign Chair’s Treatment Of CNN Reporter: ‘He’s Gotten A Lot Of Compliments’

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Ron Paul responded to the controversy over Monday’s incident involving CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview on The Laura Ingraham Show.

“What happened with CNN?” Ingraham asked. “I saw some dust-up with Dana Bash. What was that all about yesterday?”

“I don’t know,” Paul responded. “It’s sort of a long story. We were having this interview, but my staff person thought that she was over-the-top concocting something, distorting the views. He got a little annoyed and he’s gotten a lot of compliments from it.”

Ingraham cracked up at the praise given to Paul’s campaign chairman Jesse Benton for sticking it to Bash.

RELATED: Ron Paul’s Campaign Chairman Angrily Cuts Off Interview With CNN’s Dana Bash

“I’m sort of neutral on whether those are good tactics or not,” Paul continued. “But she was a bit over the top because, you know, somebody was complaining and I think she was a plant and she went to the media and said ‘I’ve been a Ron Paul supporter and now I hate his guts,’ so she wanted to promote the propaganda of what other campaigns do. It’s part of the dirty tricks game and [Benton] had just had it — you know and got upset with her.”

It appears that Rep. Paul is accusing Bash of promoting the propaganda of the alleged plant, but given his liberal use of pronouns, it is not entirely clear– since the “plant” could have just as easily been doing the same. Either way, his “neutrality” on the issue aside, he appears content enough with Benton’s reaction to Bash’s question.

Earlier, Mediaite’s own Frances Martel criticized CNN for editing the contentious interview.

Watch Paul explain what happened during the Dana Bash incident below courtesy of The Laura Ingraham Show:

Watch the encounter below:

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  • http://twitter.com/CharlesDalon Charles Dalon

    To all the Paul supporters out there, there is a program
    called Phone From Home and you can volunteer to call voters on behalf
    of the Ron Paul campaign. It’s an awesome way to help get Dr. Paul the
    nomination. Google “Ron Paul Phone From Home”.
    Ron Paul 2012

  • Anonymous

    Promoting the propaoganda – yup..CNN is guilty of that daily.  Good for the Paul campaign for calling them on it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    To compliment this, O’Reilly announced last week a segment Bernie Goldberg will be doing exposing Democrats and their mainstream media’s attempts to play the race card leading up to the election.

    I believe there’s a Hotline notification on Goldberg’s site for any liberal race-baiting you come across.
    I believe Brent Bozell’s group will be active in the effort as well.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is an extremist lunatic and the idol of the kkk and militia. PLEASE give him all your monetary donations. I want him to be the gop candidate.. and if not there.. a 3rd party.

  • Anonymous

    laughable

  • Anonymous

    yeh 5′ tall dana bash scared this old loony goon..  how dare she ask him a question he didn’t like! that never happens in campaigns!

    LOL =  gop clown show!

  • Anonymous

    The lady that was complaining at Mo Joes diner was a McCain supporter. Karen Heller.

    http://goo.gl/tFJu4
    http://youtu.be/mDEEU0oq6bY
    http://youtu.be/a7LJ2Zj6uao

    McCain is endorsing Mitt Romney.

  • Anonymous

    The lady that was complaining at Mo Joes diner was a McCain supporter. Karen Heller.

    http://goo.gl/tFJu4

    http://youtu.be/mDEEU0oq6bY

    http://youtu.be/a7LJ2Zj6uao

    McCain is endorsing Mitt Romney.

  • Anonymous

    Oh dear – it seems we are playing musical headlines here again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    So is Olbermann doing the coverage tonight, or did he have another snit and lock himself in the bathroom, or something?
    lmao!

  • Anonymous

    Right – reverse the situation and Dana would be telling the person complaining about Obama to get a grip/life and she would defend Obama to the end.
    dana bash is a DNC hack, along with her husband who will probably come to her defense tonight on the air.

    Someone (anyone?)who watches CNN can report to us later, perhaps.

  • Anonymous

    Dana Bash fears Ron Paul’s influence. She’s already made this clear in her Iowa coverage.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mark.kane3 Mark Kane

    i just heard Fox News say “Ron Paul came to Mitt Romney`s defense in regards to the firing people slip up” then 60 seconds later on the same program Brit Hume saying “Ron Paul is supporting Newt Gingrich in attacking Romney” Can these guys not get there shit straight…….POOR!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    I laugh at all you RP supporters you all sound the same he’s got yall well trained and juiced up on conspiracy videos (don’t deny it). You all use the phrase “he’s the only one” and you all talk about debt, and none of you have economic degrees from an accredited university. All you become financial experts and monetary/currency experts all of a sudden. ONe video and you guys now it all. You all are becoming the jehovah’s witnesses of politics. I hope you realize that, I have better luck convincing David Koresh he’s not the Christ than tell a RP supporter he’s off the deep end, not to mention the fact he’s a closet racist, not racist racist but a prejudice insensative person who could careless about minorities, here’s the proof

    http://bit.ly/thetrueronpaul

  • 12voltman1

    Your family should intervene and get you help (deprogramming).

  • News Of The World

    All you have left is complaining about the media.  That’s all ya got.  NONE of your sorry lot of candidates has a shot in hell of beating Obama in November.  Looks like YOU are in for another 4 years of misery.  Me?  I couldn’t be happier.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mark.kane3 Mark Kane

    Take you hit shit somewhere else

  • Anonymous

    Just because you don’t get it, doesn’t mean we’re wrong. You go ahead and make fun of RP supporters. Maybe that makes you feel good about yourself, I don’t know, it’s impossible to tell from one comment.

    All I know is that there is one Presidential candidate (including Mr. Obama) who speaks against the PATRIOT Act, NDAA, the impending war with Iran, the grotesquely misnamed “War on Terror”, the blatant racism of the “War on Drugs”, the criminality of the banker bail-out, and just about every worry I have regarding the government and the direction of this country.

    You don’t believe Ron Paul? So be it. But what do you have? Who speaks about those things mentioned above? Who else is standing up for whistle-blowers like Bradley Manning? If you have somebody better, break him out! Let’s hear all about your perfect candidate!

  • elizabeth layton

    I smell a jew traitor in the woodpile.

  • 12voltman1

    OK
    Go Ron Go,
    Happy?

  • Anonymous

    republicanbalck, you ought to read into the comments that people are sending you on your article.  It would help you to seriously consider what they’re saying because they aren’t attacking you personally per-se, but pointing out the falsehoods in your arguments.  I for one actually do have an economics degree from an accredited university, lol!  So here I am to tell it to you straight!

    It’s hard to disagree with Ron Paul on monetary policy because, if you follow CNN Money or CNBC or Forbes or The Economist, you will know that he is accurate when he talks about the Federal Reserve manipulating the US monetary supply (see Quantitative Easing, i.e. devaluing the US Dollar), which is a way of the Federal Reserve taking the value out of the dollars in your savings account and transferring that wealth to government expenditures and foreign bank bail outs.  I agree that this does sound like conspiracy theory, and it is so egregiously bad that you would think “how can this be true? It must be a lie.”  But it’s not my job to convince you of the facts.  If you want to learn how the Federal Reserve works, you can find out for real just as I did.

    You are probably aware that the US has a National Debt of $15 Trillion.  I hope that people are aware that the Federal Reserve is the lender of that money.  And I also hope that everyone becomes aware that the “Federal Reserve” is a privately owned banking conglomerate and thus NOT owned by the Government or the public.  The US Gov’t does not have a treasury with gold in it from which to pay its bills.  It has a privately owned Federal Reserve profiting off of the loans it makes to a congress that overspends and wracks up enormous debt.  

    All conspiracy theories aside, the question you should be asking yourself is, where did the Federal Reserve get $15 Trillion to loan to the Government, and how much interest are they charging us on that loan?

  • 12voltman1
  • Anonymous

    “We’ll see”, said the Zen master.

  • Anonymous

    So what you’re saying is that in order to have any opinion on the economic path of the country, you have to have a degree in economics? That’s like saying you need to have good grammar in order to post on the internet (see how I turned that around on you?).

  • Anonymous

    The Mainstream Media has carried on a long policy of disingenuousness with Paul.  First, they openly admitted to ignoring him, because “he had no chance of winning”.  Then, when independent reports began to come out showing that Paul was dead LAST in media coverage–far behind insignificant candidates Paul polled far better than, who are now out of the race–the Mainstream Media stopped addressing it at all.  As you recall, in one major hour-long debate, Paul was given 79 SECONDS to speak.  Then, when legit pundits on both ends of the spectrum who are not Paul-supporters–think Jon Stewart and Neil Cavuto–began throwing their hands up in the air and crying foul, the Mainstream Media dug in their heels.  But when Paul STILL did great in the polls, against all odds, the Mainstream  Media began its campaign of giving Paul grossly disproportionate NEGATIVE media coverage–as is evidenced by the title of this article.  The whole experience has been extremely frightening.  Most recently, we have the case of Paul being ambushed by a CNN reporter named (appropriately) Bash.  A simple Youtube search shows Ms. Bash going on the record on CNN beforehand saying that she is just as “worried” as Paul’s political opponents that Paul will do well.  How in God’s name should this be the reporter CNN picks to cover Paul?  And yet, the author of this piece, and the Mainstream Media in general will simply not acknowledge what I have just typed here.  I don’t think it’s a conspiracy.  I think this exists because the MSM is made up primarily of privileged white kids who attended a few prestigious J-schools, where they learned to write leads and edit copy, but never in their entire lives really had to actually think.  They were told from the cradle that they were the smartest kids in the room, and they accepted that, uncritically, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

  • Jim Nope

    Ron Paul is fighting against a huge opposition among most, if not all,
    of the mainstream media. As well as against the other candidates. Why is
    that?

    Doesn’t it bother you, that so many, and there are many, so called media
    persons, have DIRECT connections either through marriage or other
    family ties, to the military industrial complex and the financial sector
    that controls our economy?

    Yet, you people who favor Romney, Santorum or any other status quo
    shill, are too blind to see and understand that? Really? Get it through
    your heads, THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU or the average American citizen.
    They don’t. They put on masks of care, of compassion, of being shiny and
    bright. If you remove the mask their true nature reveals itself. Even
    the devil himself tries to portray himself as an angel of light. Why? TO
    FOOL YOU.

    Let’s look at some relevant FACTS.

    Dana Bash, Bash is the daughter of Stu Schwartz, an ABC News producer
    who is currently the senior broadcast producer of ABC News, based at
    Good Morning America. Her mother, Frances Weinman Schwartz, is an
    educator in Jewish studies and author of the book, Passage to Pesach,
    and co-author with Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of two books, Jewish Moral
    Virtues, and A Touch of the Sacred. Bash’s brother, David Schwartz, is a
    New York City-based producer of video news and video public relations,
    who recently began his own company, DMS Productions.

    On May 25, 2008, she married fellow CNN correspondent John King, who
    converted to Judaism prior to marrying[3] her. It is her second
    marriage, having previously been married to Jeremy Bash.[4][5] – from
    Wikipedia.

    Dana Bash, previous husband:

    Jeremy B. Bash is the Chief of Staff to Leon Panetta, the Secretary of
    Defense. He was given the position in July 2011, at the same time as
    Panetta.[1] He previously held the same position (to the same person) at
    the Central Intelligence Agency.[2] – from Wikipedia

    Follow the threads people, follow the threads. Would anyone like to tell
    me that Dana Bash does NOT have a vested interest in this? Look at all
    the connections to BIG MONEY and the status quo in just these two
    aspects.

    The truth is out there if you only look.

  • Jim Nope

    Laugh at this funny boy.

    Look up what the federal reserve does.  It prints worthless money and injects it into our economy with the idea to some how make it better, or stronger, or to fix it.

    Then consider the fact that, during world war II and nearly every war ever fought, one of the methods used AGAINST AN ENEMY, is to  print worthless money and inject it into their economy, (counterfeit) to WEAKEN their economy, and THAT’S WHAT IT DOES. 

    In BOTH cases.  It WEAKENS the economy. 

    So, how do you explain that?  Why would they willing and KNOWINGLY sabotage our economy?

  • Jim Nope

    Let’s look at some relevant FACTS.

    Dana Bash, Bash is the daughter of Stu Schwartz, an ABC News producer
    who is currently the senior broadcast producer of ABC News, based at
    Good Morning America. Her mother, Frances Weinman Schwartz, is an
    educator in Jewish studies and author of the book, Passage to Pesach,
    and co-author with Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of two books, Jewish Moral
    Virtues, and A Touch of the Sacred. Bash’s brother, David Schwartz, is a
    New York City-based producer of video news and video public relations,
    who recently began his own company, DMS Productions.

    On May 25, 2008, she married fellow CNN correspondent John King, who
    converted to Judaism prior to marrying[3] her. It is her second
    marriage, having previously been married to Jeremy Bash.[4][5] – from
    Wikipedia.

    Dana Bash, previous husband:

    Jeremy B. Bash is the Chief of Staff to Leon Panetta, the Secretary of
    Defense. He was given the position in July 2011, at the same time as
    Panetta.[1] He previously held the same position (to the same person) at
    the Central Intelligence Agency.[2] – from Wikipedia

    Follow the threads people, follow the threads. Would anyone like to tell
    me that Dana Bash does NOT have a vested interest in this? Look at all
    the connections to BIG MONEY and the status quo in just these two
    aspects.

  • Anonymous

    “none of you have economic degrees from an accredited university.”
    Hahaha Neither does the man who predicted the economic disaster we’re in now. And all the while your precious economics degreed dullards said everything was fine right before the crash while RON PAUL knew years before and said so.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S3lXDOQ7ec&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=48Gfzgxh3ZQ#!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5nGCpzel6o&feature=related

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-Riley/1175342922 Nick Riley

    It sounds like you need to read something by David Walker.  He resigned from being the chief accountant of the USA  and he said that Ron Paul’s debt concern is valid and it is our biggest threat.

    Any of his articles will support Ron Paul’s agenda of spending cuts. Big ones in 2013.

    I support Ron Paul based on facts, not on emotion.

  • Anonymous

    No, I’m not happy. I had hoped for a substantive discussion of possible resolutions to the issues listed in my previous comment. That is not what I got.

    Either you have no problem with the invasions of your privacy authorised by the PATRIOT Act or you have a different solution. Which is it? Either you agree with the NDAA and indefinite detention of citizens and the repeal of posse comitatus, or you have an alternate response. That goes for every item listed above plus many I had left out.

    I brought up some very real issues, and I’d prefer to discuss solutions. The best one I can see is to support and vote for Ron Paul. What are your solutions? Or are these not problems for you?

  • 12voltman1

    OK. I agree with you 100% with the PATRIOT act issue.
    But Ron Paul is not the answer.He is flawed mostly in bigotry.

  • Anonymous

    I find that a more reasonable response, not because you agreed with me on the PATRIOT Act, but because you actually addressed one of my points. That’s a start.

    So, you think RP is a bigot. I can understand, if that is a “deal-breaker” for you. I won’t try to dissuade you of that opinion other than to quote Paul from the New Hampshire debate: “True racism in this country is in the judicial system,” Paul said,
    “the percentage of people who use drugs are about the same with blacks
    and whites. And yet the blacks are arrested way disproportionately.” “They’re
    prosecuted and imprisoned way disproportionately,” he continued, “they
    get the death penalty way disproportionately. How many times have you
    seen a white rich person get the electric chair or get, you know,
    execution?”
    “If we truly want to be concerned about racism, you
    ought to look at a few of those issues and look at the drug laws, which
    are being so unfairly enforced,” said Paul, who is known for his
    libertarian views on U.S. drug policy.”

    Maybe he is the most racist SOB ever made. Personally, I wouldn’t care if he barbecued live puppies on his front porch if he’d end the freakin’ wars and change the rhetoric regarding Iran – maybe try diplomacy. That may be a little overboard, but you get my point.

    I’ve heard much of the apologia for Mr. Obama already. But from my perspective, Mr. Obama is no different than Mr. Bush before him or Mr. Clinton before Bush. I shook off the Red vs. Blue mindset a while back. And rhetoric means nothing to me. Actions and the results of those actions are the important things. And what I see is decreasing freedom domestically and increased militarism abroad.

    And I want these things to change! Therefore: Ron Paul in 2012! Peace, freedom and the resulting prosperity!

  • Woman.For.Paul. Now

    Ron Paul, a patriot, who has honorably served his country, defends both the constitution and civil liberties, and is for peace and prosperity. Dr. Paul has the wisdom, foresight, honesty and integrity to be president.
    Dr. Paul believes spending and deficits are destroying this country. Besides the spending cuts, there are other issues of importance to conservative voters. In fact, Paul scores highly on all of them: Second Amendment protection, pro-life record, right-to-work, pro-business, anti-tax, and states’ rights.
    Dr. Paul also believes America should have the strongest national defense on earth — which he believes begins with not trying to constantly police the earth.  Right now, our government puts our best and bravest in harm’s way on a regular basis for questionable reasons and with no discernible notion of victory. This is not supporting the troops. It’s abusing them. Dr. Paul wants an end to this absurd, costly policy.
    The voters have declared Dr. Paul the alternative to the liberal, flip flopping Mitt Romney. The other candidates are simply irrelevant.  In the New Hampshire Primary, Dr. Paul received more votes than all the supposed Anti-Romney (Santorum, Gingrich, and Perry) candidates combined.
    The question for Republican voters is not whether they can afford to vote for Dr. Paul – it’s whether they can afford not to.
    America Needs Ron Paul.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s what black Americans think
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej5_rZof7MA&feature=youtu.be

    Here’s a real life example of Ron Paul’s “racism”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4#t=0s

    Ron Paul discusses one of his racist positions:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J3OMGT4AxA

    Proof of Ron Paul’s Racism!ROCK SOLID EVIDENCE!

    http://www.5k.com/

  • Anonymous

    While my concentration at university was on management, my B.S. (more mathematical and scientific than a B.A.) in Business included many economics classes.  When I first heard four years ago how different Ron Paul’s positions are, I researched them.  Once I had learned he was absolutely correct (unless you are married to Keynes’ failed concepts), I supported him wholeheartedly. 

    As for his “racism” see my comment just above this one. 

    You are, however, correct in that it is virtually impossible to convince a Ron Paul supporter to support a RINO.  Once reminded about what really matters in our country and once we realize what is necessary for our country to recover from the mess created by both parties, it becomes impossible to support a candidate who will perpetuate the policies that got us into the mess we find ourselves in.

  • bugspotter24

    Now, that criminal propagandist Bash is saying her “worried just like I am” phrase was (snort) “taken out of context.”
    She of course meant to say “TERRIFIED just like I am”.
    THAT’S the “proper context”.
    CNN apologizes for the confusion.

  • ashton1

    Bash is the daughter of Stu Schwartz, an ABC News producer who is currently the senior broadcast producer of ABC News, based at Good Morning America.

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