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A Rankled Ron Paul Grapples With Radio Caller’s Newsletter Questions

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As his ascent grows increasingly questionable in light of scrutiny of his foreign policy stances and several-decade-old newsletters, it appears the questions about the latter have become inescapable for Rep. Ron Paul, even from garden variety political enthusiasts. Rep. Paul appeared today on Iowa’s WHO-AM with host Jan Mickelson and had to confront repeated questions on how it was possible for him not to know the content of his newsletter.

The caller initially asked, simply, how confident Rep. Paul was that the newsletters– not released while Rep. Paul was in Congress, but in the interim between his initial term and today– were representative of his views on “on taxes, on monetary policy, the Second Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, all the things that you hold dear?” The caller appeared more interested in the conspiracies about those topics in the newsletters than the racist rhetoric, of which Rep. Paul has answered questions about repeatedly. Perhaps because of this, Rep. Paul gave a lengthy answer, admitting that he wrote “a certain portion of them” on economics. He then explained:

“This was in between, it would be an investment letter. This would be material that I would turn in, and it would become part of the letter. But there were many times when I didn’t edit the whole letter, and things got put in. And I didn’t even really become aware of the details of that until many years later when somebody else called and said, you know what was in it? But these were sentences that were put in, a total of eight or ten sentences, and it was bad stuff. It wasn’t a reflection of my views at all. So it got in the letter, I thought it was terrible, it was tragic, you know and I had some responsibility for it, because name went on the letter. But I was not an editor. I’m like a publisher.”

He went on to explain that even newspaper publishers get “junky stuff” in their newspapers, and that the problematic sentences tended to be something like “ten sentences out of 10,000 pages, for all I know.” He also, again, disavowed “all these views” that were problematic, though did not indicated whether he meant any specific ones on the economy or race.

The caller pressed on, however, asking about the conspiracies in the letter. “You had one newsletter from start to finish with fear that the $50 bill, because it was going to be made pink, and it was gonna have all kinds of things that can track us down, so we should all be afraid that maybe tomorrow they’re gonna require us to turn in all of our old money,” the caller noted, to which Rep. Paul responded, “the paper money is now pink, you know?”

The conversation is then followed up by an ad supporting Rep. Paul that the Congressman himself had never heard, of a constituent Rep. Paul helped get medical care, which the Congressman attributed to a SuperPAC and expressed happiness at finding out that the person was appreciative enough to star in an ad supporting him.

The segment via C-SPAN below:



[h/t Fox Nation]

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  • Anonymous

    Fact: The Fed, Bilderbergs, the Trilateral Commission, those who committed 9/11(We all know it wasn’t some terrorists, Ron Paul has vaguely supported this!) and other nefarious groups need to be scared of a Paul Presidency.
    Fact: Ron Paul doesn’t need to explain anything newsletters with his name on them. He’s already explained that he had very little do with it, changing his story on multiple occasions to do so.
    Fact: Just because Paul can’t manage newsletters with some 11 employees or so doesn’t mean he can’t manage a government with millions of employees.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    Thanks for clearing this up Ron.. as you have in the past.. kinda silly thinking this is all they ever come up with about Paul….

    Now if we can get Mitt to come up with more reasons why he thought Romnneycare/Obamacare was good for this country and his state…..forcing Fed laws on what WE buy..

    And why Newt thinks taking money from Fanny over a million is not Lobbying.. shame

    Not to mention the lower in the field.. really, there is no point in mentioning.
     

  • Henry Wood

    “In May 1996, Paul was confronted in an interview by the Dallas Morning
    News about a line that appeared in a 1992 newsletter, under the headline
    “Terrorist Update”: “If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged
    male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be.” His response:

    ‘If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them,” Dr. Paul said.’

    Paul also defended his claim, made in the same 1992 newsletter that “we
    can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in [Washington, DC]
    are semi-criminal or entirely criminal” Paul told the Dallas Morning
    News the statistic was an “assumption” you can gather from published studies.”

    http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/12/27/395391/fact-check-ron-paul-personally-defended-racist-newsletters/

    And no, the source isn’t thinkprogress…it’s Ron Paul.

    I don’t really think that this is news.  Ron Paul is an old white man from Texas.  It would be kinda shocking if he WASN’T racist.  Then again, all the other republiklan candidates are also racists.  At least Paul wants to end the war on drugs, which would be far more important to persons of all races than whether or not he is prejudiced.

  • Mo Fokker

    Ron Paul is the anti-Neocon, anti-establishment candidate..  It is quite healthy that he is challenging their grip on power in the Republican party. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You had me scratching my head for a moment. Very well done!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I can agree with that. I can even agree with some of Paul’s positions. That doesn’t mean Paul is not nutty, however.

  • Anonymous

    There’s only one problem here. Obama and Romney are both socialist, and the only candidate who can hammer this home is Dr Ron Paul. The only true conservative in the race. They don’t want Romney and Paul to be the top contenders. The establishment knows Dr Ron Paul can expose Romney to the voters as the selected socialist / republican nominee.

  • Anonymous

    I had to go to a very dark place for this.  I had to go back to that sad day when I watched most of the “Conspiracy Theories with Jesse Ventura” and channel his idiocy.  I had to remember that a lot of Ronulans start a lost of posts with “Fact:…”
    Also, I had to remember, ignorance and idiocy of the Ron Paul must always be dismissed because anyone who attacks him clearly hates the constitution and America.

  • Anonymous

    I get the impression that Lyndon LaRouss is close by.

  • Anonymous

    wow that’s a powerful ad

  • Mo Fokker

    My party-the Democratic party-had a former Klan member as one of its respected members for years.  I agree that I don’t think Ron Paul would govern with some kind of axe to grind against blacks, just as I don’t think Roberty Byrd did.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ASHKUEB7ZAMK365JBTKFJPDJI4 gsuvari

    It doesn’t nosoul?  How so?

  • Anonymous

    Lyndon LaWho?

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is the epitome of what’s wrong with the government and it’s surprising you all haven’t realized that.  He has nothing to show for all the money spent paying his salary in Congress.  He will complain about earmarks but at the same time load up his district with as many as he can, so he suffers nothing and puts principles aside as he and his district still benefit from the contemptible practice of earmarking.

    He’ll argue that he should be able to manage a government as the chief executive and commander-in-chief but in the same breath dismiss any responsibility he may have for his ridiculous papers that he managed and put his name to, while taking in money from it showing a distinct lack of leadership and responsibility which we on the right, continually, and rightfully, attack Obama for.

    And with all that, he’ll continually embrace the absolute worst parts of society, conspiracy theorists, neo-nazis, and the like without a second thought.

    You’re right: who better to expose the nuts than a fellow nut?

  • Anonymous

    All the Ron Paul detractors need to watch this video.  It needs to  go viral.  Then you can all hang your heads in shame.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4&feature=player_embedded

  • Anonymous

    Please seek psychological help

    Edit: I see what you did there

  • Henry Wood

    But again, as I detailed above, they key is honesty and contrition.  While I certainly think that Byrd was a racist on his deathbed, his honesty and contrition about his membership in the KKK was the reason he earned respect.

  • Anonymous

    That was pretty cool. Anyways…

    There’s a story that a famous radio host once stated.  I can’t remember his name off the top of my head(He died a year or two ago), but he was rather famous and ended most, if not all of his broadcasts with a short story.  One of his stories went something like “One day a white man was walking down the street.  He saw two white guys beating on a black guy.  The white man rushed over to help the guy who couldn’t defend himself.  The helper was George Wallace.”

    Do you know what actions define him to this day in the eyes of the majority of people?  The most prevalent ones: the racist ones.

    Do you want to guess which actions define Ron Paul in the eyes of the majority of the people?

  • Anonymous

    It would be much more surprsing that an old white Texan is not a racist than that he is. There are some who are not, I am sure, but it is not remotely shocking that Paul thinks black people are light off feet and all that BS.

  • Anonymous

    I assume you missed TRRE’s post, as well my follow up?

  • Anonymous

    What did Ron Paul vote for against the Constitution? He was doing his job EXACTLY as one who took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution SHOULD!!!
    LOL!! Still taking soundbits from the MSM about earmarks… LEARN HOW THEY WORK. Learn out about the responsibilities of Congress, sheesh!!
    Didn’t you listen to Paul’s response? Newsletters were put out since 1976?? The bigoted sentences couldn’t even fill an entire page.  The offensive material didn’t show up until the late ’80s. 10,000+ newsletters, A sentence here and there that missed the final copy (mind you Ron Paul was working full time as a OB, and travelling the country giving speeches!  Like this obvious racist one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44KifdsrMu4 in 1988.
    Another *BIG SIGH* here…  So, with your logic, lets work this one out… Let’s say I “like” you? Does this automatically mean that you “like” me?  No? Well thanks for playing…
    Ron Paul is for the people because he is supported by the people… Please reconsider!!

  • Anonymous

    I am glad to see the curious “conspiracy (you like that :) of silence on Ron Paul slowly being broken.I havemany disagreements with sane liberals and progressives and they with me but we can all rally around the fact that Ron Paul should not be within 100 miles of the White House let alone in it. For a long time many of us who have known what Ron Paul is (for good and overwhelmingly bad) and wondered why nobody would cover  his absolUTE lunatic viewpoint on so many things and VERY CLOSE connection with LITERALLY DOZENS OF FRINGE GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS.These include the apparently myserious and unknowable ghost writers for his crazy ass newsletters (wink).

    I believe the reason is somewhat complicated but in essense boils down to The right prefering to ignore him because to give him attention is bring attention  that this chuckle heads views are in the party if even to a marginal extent (and it is marginal) as well as of a fear of enraging the passionate and sometimes psychotic Paulbots/Ronulans that view him as a King Jung Il level figure (In this case only a slight exaggeration) plus why offend someone who supporters you may need later on (pointless because many of his supporters are not and will never be Republican voters and never have been).

    From the Dem point of view is interesting. I initially though nobody brought attention to him in hopes he would gain some prominence (like recent weeks) and then they could tar the republicans of being the “party of Ron Paul” and I’m sure thats a small part of it. BUT the bigger part it seems to me is that Paul also appeals to the MOST DEMENTED ON THE LEFT AS WELL because of his pacifist anti American rhetoric (or Anti Imperialist if you want be extremely diplomatic) as well as his harsh view that Israel should not exist (To be e fair most Dems do not share that view). Because his foreign policy dovetails perfectly with the Dennis Kuchinich/Code Pink/Answer Coalition/Van Jones view of the world and the other dems who were part of the establishment enjoyed him as a battering ram against “Neo con” ideology even if their views were more sophisticated and modulated. Thus one of the craziest men in modern American political history with a demeneted conspiratorial view of nearly everything was able to become if only so briefly the front runner in the soon to be irrelevent Iowa Caucuses.

    Sorry Ron, sometimes we “feel like a nut” but when it comes to leader of the country “sometimes we don’t”

  • http://www.facebook.com/RobertGDavidson Bob Davidson

    We don’t have to guess – just Google Ron Paul:

    He has NEVER voted to raise taxes.

    He has NEVER voted for an unbalanced budget.

    He has NEVER voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.

    He has NEVER voted to raise congressional pay.

    He has NEVER taken a government-paid junket.

    He has NEVER voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

    He voted AGAINST the Patriot Act.

    He voted AGAINST regulating the Internet.

    He voted AGAINST the Iraq war.

    He DOES NOT participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.

    He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every

  • Anonymous

    I like it, some 46 minutes before you responded I basically predicted the line of attack of a Ron Paul supporter.

    Also, I know how earmarks work.  And I know when, say, Jeff Flake, Trent Franks, and others who don’t mark money for earmarks and vote against them are in a better position than say Ron Paul who suffers nothing when his district still gets money.  Yeah, he’s a true man of courage there.

    11 people working for him and not one brought it up?  Oh, yeah, and noted socialist Nick Gillespie of the evil communist publication Reason has said Ron needs to explain this stuff better http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/22/ron-paul-newsletters-not-going-away-but  But you’re probably right: take Paul at his word(the many different ones).

    No, it doesn’t mean he likes them, but he surrounds himself with them, so what’s that mean?  Obama may not like(though he probably does) Wright, but he openly chose to associate with him and we attack him for that.  He may not like Frank Marshall Davis, but he associated with him.  Paul has spoken of conspiracy theories including the government being behind 9/11, FDR letting the bombing of Pearl Harbor happen, the activities of the Bilderberg group, the trilateral commission, and the like(I think he’s even mentioned something about JFK’s assassination), but we ignore those facts?  How about the fact he openly associates with Alex Jones?  Got a better excuse?

    I will not reconsider a man who finds conspiracies everywhere.  He is a nut.  The sooner he is gone the better.

  • Anonymous

    Exit link of this despicable little man: Ron Paul and his viewpoint on the ” Jewish question”  praising former chess champion former jew and DERANGED PSYCHOPATH Bobby Fisher Hmmmm “Jewish question” what a funny way to talk about people of the jewish faith. In case your wondering its NOT SUBTLE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O285w-9Qr0s&context=C37d3137ADOEgsToPDskI1L0mbvkbjwv_fwKvu4qEE

    Case closed.

  • Anonymous

    Make a few hundred thousand dollar selling a racist newsletter to racists, and all of a sudden, you’re a racist.

    RON PAUL 2012  THROWING RACIST PALS UNDER THE BUS SINCE DECEMBER 29, 2011

  • Anonymous

    What, he ran over them with his wheelchair?

  • Anonymous

    Rhymes with douche.

  • Anonymous

    For all you Ron Paul fans who either honeslty think it was “only few lines/words/articles”. I’m sorry you’re wrong on that too. It was the CENTRAL THEME throughout the newsletters.

    Game over Scans of over FIFTY RON PAUL NEWSLETTERS.
    http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game-over-scans-of-over-50-ron-paul.html

    For all you innocent libertarians, who harbor no racist or crazy feelings (and there are quite a few) GET OUT while you still have your dignity and find someone else.

  • Anonymous

    This video, which is an obvious attempt by the Paultards to sweep the more than ample evidence from the newsletters that Paul is a racist and a homophobe, isn’t as great as you’d like it to be. At the time that this happened, racism in that part of Texas wasn’t like what it was in the 1950s. The Civil Rights movement was already well over. Paul was also a doctor who, like every doctor, had taken an oath to defend human life. I’m pretty certain that if Paul hadn’t done anything, someone else would’ve helped out. How do I know? I grew up near Matagorda and have spent plenty of time fishing there since I was a kid (the only thing to do there). There are definitely some racists in that podunk county and town but it’s not a miraculous, life affirming moment to find a doctor who isn’t. 

    One human act doesn’t negate this: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/angry-white-man

  • Anonymous

    Wow… so someone can scan 50 pages.  Big Deal.  Did you read those pages?  I read them and I didn’t see any of the crap you try to suggest.

  • Anonymous

    More of your distortion.  Don’t you ever get tired of lying and misleading people?

  • Anonymous

    You don’t like Ron paul because you need your little handouts from the Federal government.  Why don’t you crawl back into the cess pool that spawned you.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t have a clue.  The government has been run by the kind of people you seem to worship for 100 years and look at where we are now.

    Ron Paul is exactly what we need to get us out of the mess your big government goons have produced.

  • Anonymous

    Like I said.  If you like the way your big government goons have been running the country, then move to Greece, because that’s what you will end up with.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Why does Ron Paul hate homosexuals and African-Americans??

  • Mo Fokker

    Can I assume you jumped up and cheered when Newt Gingrich called the Palestinians an “invented people”.

  • Anonymous

    The Paul fans will still deny this inarguable fact, and all because he has suckered them with the promise to end the Afghanistan war, legalize drugs and impose his fantasy-land economic program, which he’ll never have the power to impose even if elected. They think anyone who criticizes Paul just doesn’t understand what he’s saying and needs to read up on his plan when, to me, the opposite is true. I liked him more at first than I do now, after I’ve waded through pages and pages of what he wants to do and watched him in dozens of interviews. 

    For me, it comes down to (1) his economic plan is purely untested fantasy. No one has ever done what he proposes because it’s nonsensical and any society that has operated close to what he wants has failed. Supporters are like diehard communists, though, who keep insisting it would work if only someone would do it well. (2) He’s a racist. (3) The guy is an Alex Jones-like conspiracy theorist, which should be enough said. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/ron-pauls-world/

    If half the crap he believes were true, we would’ve seen some hard evidence of it a long time ago from Wikileaks or whistleblowers. The truth is, Paul supporters who believe him and his Bircher friends have zero evidence that anything he says about 9/11 or his other theories are true but believe it anyway under the assumption that the mainstream media is hiding it from us. 

    I don’t mind him bringing up the topics to debate and discuss. All are good to think about, but he won’t get my vote. 

  • Anonymous

    Only if he in his heyday as a boxer was boxing in a wheelchair.

  • Anonymous

    Wow… you read 50 pages in 11 minutes? Pretty fast. 

    By the way, I spent about 3 minutes scanning the pages and found references to race wars, blacks abusing welfare because they are lazy and praise for David Duke, not to mention suggestions that AIDS was developed as a biological weapon. You should really try taking some reading classes to help with comprehension. 

    Or, if you want, you can just go on believing Ron Paul is the second coming of the Reagan-Christ and keep your blinders on. 

  • Anonymous

    Spoken like someone who believes in the cartoon version of history Ron Paul has fed him. 

  • Anonymous

    No.

  • Anonymous

    On the contrary my misguided “friend’. I am almost libertarian in my economic views, and I want a large reduction in cost and scope of social programs. I also support reform of the drug laws, and no increased state and individual autonomy. I even think we should be muchsmarter in our miltiary engagements (thoug not nearly as much as Ron). I hate him because he is honest to goodness crazy and has very little grip on reality.

  • Anonymous

    Who said I do?  Ron Paul isn’t the answer.  The spending needs to be cut, the regulations rolled back, and the rest, but Ron Paul is not the one to do any of it.  His only track record in Congress is one of failure and impotence.

  • Anonymous

    *correction I do want increased state and individual autonomy.

  • Anonymous

    You’re an idiot.  First off, I don’t worship any of these politicians.  I think that’s a position reserved for Ron Paul supporters.

    Ron Paul failed at running a simple letter.  If he can’t run that properly, he can’t run a government.

  • Mo Fokker

    Sorry, but it is pretty transparent from your comments that your opposition to Ron Paul has more to do with your loyalty to Israel, than it does your distaste for the specifics of the newsletters.  

    P.S.
    Not surprising he likes Sarah Palin since she is in the camp that doesn’t want the Palestinians to have their own state.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DOEI2FB4SYMKMGC3MJKUDJGDGQ Kerry Kolsch

    @snowsoul You are the nut or an anti Ron Paul troll. Anyone who is so simple minded that he does not realize that our government manipulates us every day should not act like he is the
    arbiter of sanity.  If you believe that a lone nut killed JFK or that the shadow government operatives did not know about the Oklahoma bombing or the World Trade Center and allowed them to occur, you are naive.  The feds gave driving and flying lessons to the terrorist for God’s sake! The liberty robbing Patriot Act was drafted before Oklahoma but could not pass until 9/11
    when people were terrorized The ATF’s Fast and Furious was designed to cause havoc and
    be the tool to go after our 2nd Amendment rights, but fortunately the Feds were caught and exposed.  There is no rational argument for a person like you because you do not have a concept of liberty. People like you deserve the world the despots are giving them.  Anyone who understands freedom will vote for Ron Paul and will not believe a propagandist like you.

  • Anonymous

    Mo, don’t change the subject. My opposition could be because Rons granson was mean to mean when we were in pre-scho0l.THATS IREELEVENT.The only relevent thing is my information accurate. Yes, I am very pro-israel but there are many libertarians who i respect and cerrtainly don’t villify (Garry Johnson, Thomas Sowell.

    Many of them have a different opinion of foreign policy than I do, including on Israel, so difference of opinion on how much to support Israel (if at all) is no reason to call someone a conspiracy theorizing, Alex Jones racist and anti-jew crack (or one who tolerates them as an ESSENTIAL part of his base.)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DOEI2FB4SYMKMGC3MJKUDJGDGQ Kerry Kolsch

    Mencius and snowsoul are most likely the same person. They have the same ego and writing style. Say hello to the Troll.

  • Anonymous

    By th way, I’m cool with a Pal state, if they give Israel security, and renounce the fake “right of return” but thats a discussion for a different thread.

  • Anonymous

    How can Mediaite post stories about Ron Paul and racism while refusing to deal with the racism right here on this site? The following comments, all from one story http://www.mediaite.com/tv/70-... which have all been reported, are still up:

    ilovetheusa1
    how about a 3rd charge, racial ass whoopin, or does that only apply if whitey beatup darkie ?

    ShutYourMouth
    Odds that you are black or a white liberal, 110%

    Booberry Pah
    That Walmart greeter sho acted stupidly. Time for a beer summit wit Presidint Obama!

    James
    That greeter should be put in her own internment camp which she is forced to build for looking at black people and even talking to them. They are protected, like spotted owls

    AliveStillKickin
    That white woman was probably married to a negro savage who beat her on a regular basis.That’s what they do to their white hos AliveStillKickin 75% of the negroes belong in cages.

    Jamal Jackson
    99.999% of (the user somehow got away with spelling out the “N” word in all its infamy) give the rest of them a
    bad reputation!

    wcncnbc6ch36
    Jacquetta needs to ge her black ass kicked and I’d bett there are many folks who can relate to the name

    ShutYourMouth
    Of course she is black. The only thing that is worse than a black is a white liberal. Quick question for all the blacks and white liberals: Why is it that blacks are the only ones who barely own any businesses? Yet, third-worlders like Mexicans and Indians open businesses left and right? Interesting isn’t it? Now fumble for an answer and make sure it’s a blame-whitey answer LOL

    billwhit1357
    This Simmons whore should have been dragged from her car and hanged from the nearest pole!  What an ugly smelly skank this lowlife whore of a whore is!  Hitting a little old lady, how lowlife!  I pray Simmons catches Syphlis and spreads it within her lowlife community!  Skank!

    Mediaite, all of these have been constantly reported. It is truly disgusting that
    you continue to leave this garbage up, including one poster using the
    “N” word though I couldn’t even post the “C” word involving a dog fight!
    You owe your readers an immediate apology. It saddens me that you have
    to be called out like this to get some action on this. Furthermore why is it people posting racist garbage aren’t outright banned? Don’t just delete the comment. Ban their account, or
    does that only apply if you criticize Mediaite?

  • Mo Fokker

    I don’t know.  I think it adds context to the thread to point out potential conflicts of interest or biases. And in your case, from your profile and comment history, there is plenty of information that adds context. 

  • Mo Fokker

    I think the right of return in the physical sense is not realistic, but I do think an argument that the people have a right to receive compensation for loss of their homes and livelihoods may be legitimate.

  • Anonymous

    If only we get these guys to have half the concern they have for American blacks for Palestinians in the West Bank.

  • Anonymous

    At least not since Donald Trump pulled out of him.

  • Anonymous

    As i said, one can think Israel is more wrong than I do and still be sane (and wrong in my opinion) Rons views on that particular issue, along with his embrace of tonnes of conspiracies and his willingness to closely associate with mean racist, anti jewish people. The point is his judgement is beyond appaling. My view of the conflict comes from an interest and passion in the subject and study of it for a long time but one can disagree and still be perfectly sane.

  • Anonymous

    Many of the people who count as “refugees” by the way are third or fourth generation form actual refugees.(literally never happened that descendents have been counted) Thats unprecendented. They have been kept that way in order to permanently agitate against Israel.

    As for the actual refugees, I’m ok with giving some compensation so long as the 600k-1,000,000 Jews of Arab descent get it too.

  • Mo Fokker

    I think the newsletters are fair game for criticism and would expect them to be used for political gain by his opponents, including those that are passionately opposed to either small government, a change in our foreign policy posture, or the priorities of our military.

  • Anonymous

    Seek help.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    oh, for f–k’s sake. you’re still pushing this hackneyed, tin-foil crap?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    unlike Paul, Byrd came clean about his past, took full responsibility for his mistakes and tried to make amends.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Do you know why idiots keep posting links to crackpot blogs?

  • Anonymous

    Why must they give up the right of return? It’s not fake. People who lived on that land for generations fled out of a fear for their lives. And the now the jews who ran them off tell them, ‘sorry, doors locked.” Meanwhile, jews from anywhere on planet earth–e.g. Crown Heights, Brooklyn–can waltz right in, take their land, and get israeli citizenship. By they way, that was a rhetorical question. The reason the israeilis CAN’T grant the right of return they claim for themselves for jews anywhere on earth is because israel is an ethnostate–i.e., for jews, by jews. Anything that would upset balance is out of the question. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the West, it is always jews at the forefront of every effort to oppose limitations on immigration (illegal or legal), multitculturalism etc. and so on.

  • Anonymous

    I thought “censure” was one of those made up black names; turns out it’s what you do, not who you are.

  • Anonymous

    You didn’t know “censure” was a word? That’s worse than the people that don’t know the difference between “censure” and “censor.”

  • Anonymous

    Look. I love the angry old Muppet as much as the next guy, but can we just get these primaries over so that he can go back to saying batcrap crazy stuff on Alex Jones’s show already?

  • Anonymous

    Wow, you figure that out all by yourself, Sherlock?

  • Anonymous

    I’m neither, but definitely anti-Ron Paul.  The guy has a warped vision of reality that would sooner embrace our destruction than our survival.  I’d say him praising Hamas on Iranian TV and denouncing America would be proof positive of that.  His ignorance and naivety are astounding, but what’s even more astounding is that so many mindless drones buy into this crap, hook, line and sinker without a second thought, especially one that would question his statements.

    The only action you stated with any potential reality beyond a conspiracy theory is the F&F stuff and that’s just because there’s so much evidence there.  The reality you espouse relies heavily on the rejection of common sense and critical thinking.  A government is so big and so powerful that it can cook up and successfully accomplish the various atrocities you point to as examples, but it can’t keep secret how it tracks terrorists?  It can do all that, but at the same time it can’t keep secret that it operates secret prisons around the world which house terrorists?

    The end result of your warped vision of reality is quite simple: reject all and accept ignorance and paranoia as your doctrine of faith.  That must be sad.

  • Anonymous

    Fair enough. However, consider that Byrd was a governor of state that has less than 100,000 black people total (most of whom reside in the state capitol, Charleston), which is actually far less than the amount of black people in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro alone. This, of course, is no defense of Byrd (who eventually “owned up” to his past). It is, however, support for the notion that if Paul were just to admit he held racist views in the past, it would go a long way.

  • Anonymous

    Yes Mo but the point that objective Paul fans must acknowledge is that over and above any specific policy concerns (which are big on Foreign/military policy) is the basic issue of competence and even mere sanity/grip on reality. Paul sees shadows everywhere (instead of some places) I have seen lots aand lots of videos of his interviews and I dont believe he has ever ACTUALLY DISMISSED even a single crack pot “conpiracy theory” that a fan or potential fan brought before him. It’s one thing to believe one of the famous ones (9/11, Tri-lateral commission,Con Trails, Govt experiments on people, Tracking us using secret chemicals in the currency) lol, Do i need to go on??. Much more important than ideology,(which is important) is sanity and competence.

  • Anonymous

    Nietzchean says “For the record, I support Romney”.
    Nice try sport ;) . I don’t believe your a Romney supporter lolz. You have the stench of a actual Prison Plant commenter (no offense of course). If you did support Romney(which you don’t) you may be disappointed to know he can safely be classified as a Zionist (oggidy boogedy) so….prisonplanet website is —————->>>

    better luck next time!

  • Anonymous

    And no bone in his spine.

  • Mo Fokker

    For all those reason I don’t think he has a chance of winning the nomination or the presidency. However, I hope we will see candidates in the future who embrace many of his positions, and who will have a long record of consistency on those issues, instead of being some unprincipled flip-flopper like Mitt Romney..

    And my guess is that if such a candidate emerges again, but without all the baggage,  the people who are most opposed to Ron Paul  today, will be the same people most opposed to that candidate in the future, and for all the reason I outlined previously.

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha. Great edit.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jesse-Cristie/100003278127823 Jesse Cristie

    Sounds like another big brother troll covering up the crime of the century 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jesse-Cristie/100003278127823 Jesse Cristie

    Another government troll covering up the truth. You’re right sister.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Anything to help out my fellow Austinite, Alex. I could listen to stories about black helicopters flying into underground hangars in neigboring Bastrop for hour upon hour. And the green Suburbans with the men wearing reflector sunglasses. It doesn’t get any better.

  • Mo Fokker

    Wow. You look like the deceased trial lawyer Johnny Cochran.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jesse-Cristie/100003278127823 Jesse Cristie

    I’ve heard that one before.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Ron Paul’s flacid penis is longer than yours erect.

    I used to have a superiority complex too.

    You don’t know me and you are definitely not better than me.

    Should Ron Paul further explain the newsletters. Yes, and I suspect he will after the Iowa caucuses. If not, then yes, he may deserve some more criticism. But keep in perspective, if he didn’t write these, and I think most people believe that he didn’t,

  • Anonymous

    Then he is guilty of publishing a medium where a small amount of hate speech was included. Similar charges could be made of almost any comments, oppinions, or gaming section of many websites, and even newspapers and magazines.

    Ron Paul is the only candidate proposing actual and necessary change. No one else will cut. No one else will challenge the banks. Nonone will challenge the corrupting money of crony capitalism.

  • Anonymous

    I know the difference between a man and a moron and you’re no man.
    (Must be a negro moron)

  • Anonymous

    Don’t we ALL!!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah…..And O.J. was innocent….LOL!!!

  • Anonymous

    Some of the same people will still be opposed without a doubt. Policy is important and emotional, and few issues are as emotional to people as that one (along with abortion, limited govt etc). However, you are right, people are looking for a truth teller and many individual aspects of libertarianism appeal to people. The Republican party is becoming much more libertarian evn among religious people.However, what hasn’t changed and will not change is that foreign policy hawks (in 2 different camps) and people with a traditional view of American patriotism/exceptionalism are not going anywhere. So a libertarian leaning candidate is going to have to blend the two. Rand Paul has potential, and I’m keeping my eye on him. so far, he hasn’t exhibited the craziness of his father (mostly). In fact, the aforementioned Sarah Palin endorsed him in a primary fight last year.I probably wouldn’t support him in a Presidnetial run, but if he avoids like the plague the more troubling aspects of his dads baggage, I wont rule it out either.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Danielle-Donovan/1294697454 Danielle Donovan

    I wish people would stop using words they don’t understand – like “socialist”.  Usually the same people who couldn’t spot a fascist if he came up and bit them in the butt.  Paul’s greatest attribute is his ability to project the impression that he both understands and has a simple solution for very complex problems.  VERY attractive to people who want simple answers that don’t require understanding much.  And Romney as a socialist?????
    Clearly not getting enough oxygen to the brain or books from the library.  
    And if you don’t know the story of Lyndon LaRouss, you either very young or very uneducated….or both. 
    And yes this is kind of personal because I’m getting so goddamned tired of having to wade through all this stupid stuff!

  • Anonymous

    Well who would have thought, Mediaite, that not banning a racist poster, the first few times he made racist comments, would only result in him making more. Alive and Still Kickin because Mediaite doesn’t care enough to clear the racists out of their midst.

  • Anonymous

    You mean “nosoul?”

  • Anonymous

    What do Michelle and Tina_Tampon think?

  • martin

    You forgot appearing on “coast to coast” the batsh!t crazy nightime AM radio show that esposes every imaginable tin foil hat theory to alien mind control and ET starting the christian church with magic mushrooms.  I work odd shift hours and will often listen in on my way home as LMFAO tends to keep me awake while driving and heard him being interviewed just the other night.

  • martin

    I fully and firmly believe that Ron Paul either had full knowledge of what was in those news letters or wrote the offending material himself.  Every thinking human being when given the facts comes to that unescapable conclusion

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the info, I’ll look it up!

  • Anonymous

    Lets vote for the establishment politicians who will continue the wars (drone, drug,
    death penality) that selectively targets brown people and label those
    against it as racist.

  • Anonymous

    Lady I have enough problem dealing with liberals philosophy of a massive government .well illogical theories as the one presented on your link. If I had a choice between Obama or Paul, I have to set the election out and let Obama have it. 

    The insanity of all the conspiracy theories that I am presented with makes Al Gore Scam on man made global warming the least of the insane non proven scientist theories in the market place. 

  • Anonymous

    Henry, I resent a racist calling me racist. There is not a racist bone in my body. Liberals are hate mongers that use race as a means to hold on to our Afro brothers vote. Liberals do not look at the man they are racist  and look on them as a voting block. 

    Ron Paul is a racist and I dislike the man for his racism. Holder is a racist and I dislike the man for his racism. I dislike you because you are a racist. The words you use in the post brings out the fact that you do not judge a person as an individuals but in groups. 

    You made some points but when your racism oozed out the complete post was invalid. 

    Keep the racism out of you comments and stick to the facts. Racism has no place on this page. You could have said that even Ron Paul represents a fringe of the white majority that hold on to the racist values of the past. That would have been honest and truthful. 

  • Anonymous

    You and I are in agreement on the election in 2012, It is an election that will determine whether America will return to a republic or continue down the road toward corporatism. I often describe Obama as a socialist or a Marxist but in reality Obama is a corporatist. Your rant against the Republican party is misplaced, the democrats are the ones that pushing a marriage between wall street and the government. The conception that Republicans are the party of the corporation is based on lies of the democratic party. Obama envisions a nations ruled by a supreme leader where Big Business, Big Government, Big Labor are united under a wise and intelligent leader that will control the masses and maintain social order. Obama’s ideal government is a marriage between socialism and capitalism. Corporatism can tolerate a controlled private enterprise and justifies embarking on major projects under the premise that they are too large to be funded by private enterprise.(San Jose University Department of Economics).
     
     Listen to the words of Thom Hartmann billed as the number one progressive host and author, “I do remember that Obama had promised to end the reagan trickle down madness…..instead we get Obama the Corportist saying one thing and then toeing the corporate line  EVERY SINGLE TIME……..” Hartmann sees through the facade of Obama and disagrees wiith him as vehemently as conservatives but for different reasons.
     
    The San Jose University department of economics explains the theory of corporatism , “In the last half of the 19th century people of the working class in Europe were beginning to show interest in the ideas of socialism and syndicalism. Some members of the intelligentsia, particularly the Catholic intelligentsia, decided to formulate an alternative to socialism which would emphasize social justice without the radical solution of the abolition of private property. The result was called Corporatism. The name had nothing to do with the notion of a business corporation except that both words are derived from the Latin word for body, corpus. 
     
    The basic idea of corporatism is that the society and economy of a country should be organized into major interest groups (sometimes called corporations) and representatives of those interest groups settle any problems through negotiation and joint agreement. In contrast to a market economy which operates through competition a corporate economic works through collective bargaining. The American president Lyndon Johnson had a favorite phrase that reflected the spirit of corporatism. He would gather the parties to some dispute and say, “Let us reason together.” 
     
    “In Germany and elsewhere there was a distinct aversion among rulers to allow markets to function without direction or control by the state. The general culture heritage of Europe from the medieval era was opposed to individual self-interest and the free operation of markets. Markets and private property were acceptable only as long as social regulation took precedence over such sin full motivations as greed.”

  • Anonymous

    In modern history ,the following states have identified themselves as a corporatist state. National Corporatism Italy, 1922-1945, Benito Mussolini, Country Region Monarchy Spain, 1922-1930, National Socialism Germany 1933-1945 Adolph Hitler, National Syndicalism Spain 1936-1973, New State Portugal 1932-1968, Antonio Salazar, New State Brazil, 1933-1945 Getulio Vargas. New Deal United States, Franklin Roosevelt.” I will take the liberty of writing history for a future historian and will add the following “The failed Government, 2008-2012, Barak Obama. 
     
    “Corporatism is collectivist; it is a different version of collectivism than socialism but it is definitely collectivist. It places some importance on the fact that private property is not nationalized, but the control through regulation is just as real. It is de facto nationalization without being dejure nationalization.” (San Jose Department of Economics, ) 
     
    In the list of the corporatist states the majority were totalitarian dictatorships and were labeled fascist. Franklin Roosevelt New Deal was designed and implemented by General Hugh Johnson an admirer of Mussolini’s Nationalist Corporatist system. Johnson pattern for the New Deal was drawn from the Italian experience. The confines of the Constitution and a free press kept Roosevelt from turning into a brutal fascist dictator. He was a corporatist that could not elevate his position to a fascist dictator due to the safe  guards that was placed in the Constitution by our founding fathers.  
     
    “Italian Fascism promotes a corporatist economic system whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in a cooperativeassociations to collectively represent the nation’s economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy.[3] Italian Fascists claim that this economic system resolves and ends class conflict by creating class collaboration.” (Italian Fascism From Wikipedia) 
     
    While freedom loving Americans slept the progressives were advancing their goal to establish a massive government that is in total control of the American People . “Private property and business is so heavy regulated that that private property is not nationalized, but the control through regulation is just as real. It is de facto nationalization without being dejure nationalization.”(San Jose Department of Economics,) 

  • Anonymous

    “The EPA is circumventing both Congress and the supreme court to enforce and solidify their control of the American people, “Just as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has used the Clean Air Act to broaden the scope of their authority way beyond its original intention with rules like MACTandCSAPR, the Clean Water Act is becoming a tool of overreach by the out of control agency. 
     
    Barack Obama and the EPA’s Lisa Jackson have made it clear through their actions that they will circumvent the legislature by using regulatory enforcement to enact Obama’s green dreams, and now it seems that circumvention includes the Supreme Court of the United States. 
     
    “During the Bush presidency, a series of Supreme Court decisions acknowledged the limits of reach for the Clean Water Act. Most notably, the Supreme Court clarified that federal jurisdiction did not extend to wetlands and other “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Through the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook Country v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (2001) and Raponos v. U.S. (2006) the Supreme Court established that private property rights still mattered even in light of the Clean Water Act and that the federal government did not have authority over them. This of course ins’t stopping Barack Obama and Lisa Jackson from moving forward anyway.” 
     
    Four years ago the Sacketts were filling in their lot with dirt and rock, preparing to build a simple three-bedroom home in a neighborhood where other houses have stood for years. Then three federal officials showed up and demanded they stop construction. The agency claimed the .63-acre lot was a wetland, protected under the Clean Water Act. 
     

  • Anonymous

    The Sacketts say they were stunned. The owners of an excavation company, they had secured all the necessary local permits. And ChantellSackett says that before work began, she drove two hours to Coeurd’Alene, Idaho, to consult with an Army Corps of Engineers official. She says the official told her orally, though not in writing, that she didn’t need a federal permit. “We did all the right things,” she says. 
     
    The EPA issued an order requiring the Sacketts to put the land back the way it was, removing the piles of fill material and replanting the vegetation they had cleared away. The property was to be fenced off and the Sacketts would be required to submit annual reports about its condition to the EPA. The agency threatened to fine them up to $32,500 a day until they complied. But this is about clean water, not federal land grabs, right? Tell that to the Sacketts. ” (Ben Howe, Red State)
     

  • Anonymous

    The NLRB is an out of control agency that is dictating to Business where they can and can not build a plant. These are some of the many examples of the United States under Obama.
     
    Obama love affair with Wall street and big banks is obvious. The tarp money was awarded to big banks and wall street not main street. GeorgeSoros has boasted that the best years of his life was the years he spent working for the government of Germany sending his family and friends off to become products of the ovens. Tim Geithner is the ultimate wall street insider. The Kaiser family health porviders, Warren Buffet, Bank of America, Immelt General Electric, Corzine MF Global. 
     
    Obama with the appointment of the czars, using the Justice Department as a Department of Payback, ignoring both the Congress and the Supreme court, ordering the Justice Department not to enforce the laws of our land has already stepped into the role of a mini dictator. The question is how far will we let him go?
     
    The 2012 election will determine wheather  we are a nation of freedoms that the government fears or a nation enslaved by a totalitarian dictatorships whose citizens fear their government. My philosophy is clear on the subject of enslavement. In every conflict there are there are those destined to pray and those destined to fight. Both are angels of God. Prayers need wings and feet to mobilize and fight. The minuteman are standing by waiting on the trumpet- pray that we never shall have to blow the horns of war, If it is the will of God and the horns sound, then we will march out in Glory and we shall live or we shall die but either way we will not be a slave to a government or man.without_hate 

  • Anonymous

    Given the choice between a man that is out of touch with reality and a man that is hell bent on destroying America as we know it is an impossible choice. 

  • Anonymous

    If you are tired of reading the post here, the Disney Channel has some great programs. Each and ever poster here whether I agree or disagree has the right to express his opinion. You are underestimating the audience, most are well informed.You demeaning your audience is not going to open their mind to what you have to say. 

    Many of us do not like Ron Paul because his economic theories are not realistic. They are talking points that sound great but when one takes a detail look they do not make sense. 

    Now, I will get tons of hate mail. 

  • Anonymous
  • Pablo

    Right. You can be nutty as a squirrel turd as still be right from time to time. Your comment is a case in point.

  • Pablo

    I’m disturbed at the blind devotion that many Branch Paulidians display for Ron Paul. I’m reminded of nothing so much as Obamabots.

  • Pablo

    Similar charges could be made of almost any comments, oppinions, or
    gaming section of many websites, and even newspapers and magazines.

    All of what was in those newsletters was sold as the work of Ron Paul.

    And IIRC, both Perry and Bachmann are advocating massive spending and regulatory cuts and a crackdown on crony capitalism. So Ron Paul is not the “only one.”

  • Pablo

    Why? Gingrich is right, but there’s no particular need to celebrate the statement of a fact.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZOXLEGP6KM2VZWTO5G6DHO5YTI Woody

    Ahh, but you make the assumption that Paul was trying or wanted to manage a newsletter. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZOXLEGP6KM2VZWTO5G6DHO5YTI Woody

    Your party also had Harry Truman, a man who almost joined the Klan except Tom Pendergast talked him out of it, who integrated the armed forces.  And Lyndon Johnson, an out and out bigot who actually passed all the Civil Rights legislation that JFK couldn’t get and didn’t even try to get passed.  Paul wants to do something about the drug war which many commentators have pointed out has been worse to black Americans than anything the Klan ever did.   I guess we can call this the “only Nixon could go to China” axiom.  Something to think about.

  • Anonymous

    The newsletter stories have been getting pushed by James Kirchick since
    2008.  Back in 2008 Kirchick admitted that none of the offensive
    comments can be directly attributed to Ron Paul.  To quote him from his
    own article, “Of course, with few
    bylines, it is difficult to know whether ANY particular article was
    written by Paul himself. Some of the earlier newsletters are signed by
    him, though the VAST majority of the editions I saw contain no bylines
    at all.”

    James Kirchick is a fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of
    Democracies (FDD) which is a pro-war organization that according to Think
    Progress “has a 10-year history of engaging in
    alarmist rhetoric and fear mongering — e.g. in 2002 FDD aired a series
    of ads conflating Osama bin Laden, Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein —
    and helped promote the “Bush doctrine” which led to the invasion of
    Iraq.” Also, currently the organization is promoting “U.S. military intervention in the Middle
    East” and advocates  “its hawkish stance against Iran.”

    The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies includes war hawks such as Bill Kristol of the
    Weekly Standard, Sen. Joe Lieberman, Gary Bauer, Rep. Eric Cantor, and
    Charles Krauthammer and is littered with many former officials from the CIA, military, and FBI.

    Ron Paul’s message of peace is a direct threat to the goals of this
    organization including expanding Americas involvement in more wars. It
    is no wonder the FDD has been unleashing its media cohorts like James
    Kirchick to attack Ron Paul.

  • Dustin Dyar

    No! Ron Paul isn’t racist damn it. He speaks a message similar to King Jr. I’ve heard of him helping medically many people of different races, I’ve heard countless hours of him speaking about individual freedom for ALL. He one of the very few that goes after specific institutionalized racism. I have NEVER heard him say a racist thing other than when he’s talking about his fellow politician wanting to kill all the Muslims. Forget about his charity and the struggle for the constitution, just by making liberty mainstream again he’s done more to help black people than you can ever dream to accomplish. Its a shame that white people will call white people racist just to curve the black vote, so that they can continue bankrupting and murdering millions. 

  • Dead_Air

    Lyndon Johnson was 1964, this is 2012.

  • Dead_Air

    ‘Branch Paulidians’ – good one.

    I was thinking ‘ScienPaulogists.’

  • Henry Wood

    As usual, I have elicited some fact-free comments from right wingers.

    JFK didn’t try to get the Civil Rights act passed?  He called for its passage in June of ’63, and assembled congressional leaders to line up votes in October of ’63.  He was then murdered in November of ’63.

    Lyndon Johnson, that “out and out bigot” appointed the first black justice to the supreme court, a man who had argued the Brown V. BOE decision before the court, Thurgood Marshall.

  • Henry Wood

    Another fact-free comment.  Ron Paul’s message is clearly not “similar” to MLK’s message.  MLK marched with labor unions and his foes labeled him a communist.  He was a proponent of social and economic justice, not “freemarkits.”  MLK was in favor of outright quotas in fighting job discrimination, Ron Paul opposes affirmative action.

    Ron Paul also voted against the MLK holiday.

  • Henry Wood

    I understand that you resent me pointing out how racist your party is.  I understand your need to accuse me of racism because you are angry that I pointed this out.

    “You could have said that Ron Paul represents a fringe of the
    white majority that hold on to the racist values of the past. That would
    have been honest and truthful.”

    Actually, that would be total bullchit.  Those of us with our eyes open know that the people who still hold on to “racist values of the past” are not a “fringe,” but a significant portion of the white electorate.  Lying about this gets you nowhere.

    Johnson’s quote upon signing the 1964 CRA was actually: “We have lost the South for a generation.”  He underestimated.  The Dems have lost the south for several generations since then.  He probably didn’t know how deeply and completely the Republiklan party would embrace white racists.

    I actually have a little more respect for racists who don’t lie about what they believe. At least they are honest.  People like yourself, racists who lie about who/what they are, are much worse.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-625

    Ron Paul voted “Aye” on Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

  • Anonymous

    Those poor blacks, forced to sell drugs, gun each other down and ruin their schools & neighborhoods by those evil whiteys

  • Henry Wood

    The 1979 bill was not voted on by the senate. 

    The 1983 bill was the one that was passed and signed into law.

    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1983-289

    Nay TX-22 Paul, Ronald (R.)

    Ron Paul voted against the bill that actually passed.  I don’t know why he was for it before he was against it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    I of course agree with you.

    But if Ron Paul would have answered the first round of questions the way he answered in the interview posted here, I would have had more respect from him.

    Ron Paul is just another politician. His handlers and spinsters finally came up with an answer that covered all the bases.

    So I give them credit.

    Maybe we do need another Texas Republican who has a lackluster record of accomplishments as our next president.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    So you at least admit that global warming exists.

    You just don’t think Man has anything to do with it?

    Am I catching your drift? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    huh?

    He says he was and that he did.

    Unless it was all a scam?*

    *pssst. It was all a scam.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I’m in the same boat.  It seems no mistake really matters.  They follow him like a prophet it seems, absorbing any words and believing he can make no mistakes.  Also, that is good lol.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    You don’t have much credibility pressing Mitt and Newt on the issues, or their record, when you are so eagerly and breathlessly give Ron Paul’s 10 years of nutty newsletters a complete pass.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    “At least Paul wants to end the war on drugs, which would be far more important to the battle against institutional racism than whether or not he is prejudiced.”

    Excellent point. It’s pretty ironic that Paul’s policy on drugs is actually the most sane and important step that could be taken to reach racial equality in our country. Would immediately curb the racist’s ability to lock up young black men for basically being entrepreneurs and filling a market need.

    That said, his other domestic policies would devastate the poor and lower middle class in America. These policies would affect a higher percentage of minorities than Whites, but far more Whites would be devastated economically than Blacks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    That was then. This is now. Nobody is denying it.

    The only people telling lies about history are Ron Paul and his breathless sycophants. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    It would not “go away”.

    I do think he should own up to it. But there are also consequences.

    Consequences are not always insurmountable, but they can  be.

    That’s why it’s so tough to do. And that’s why people respect you when you do so.

    But if you’re attitude is “hey, I admitted it, now shut up and give me my crown”, then that won’t work.

    Still, that’s better than, “it wasn’t me, i didn’t do it, i take responsibility for it, even though i didn’t do it, now shut up and give me my crown.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Johnson also signed the Freedom of Information Act.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    It’s not that they are forced to do that, dummy.

    It’s that they are put in jail for it.

    And at higher statistical rates than people in different tax brackets.

    Just leave them alone. Let them run their private business. And keep the government and the police out of it.

    It’s called personal liberty. As long as you aren’t hurting anyone, the PO PO should leave you the f alone.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    there’s no such thing as a “racist bone”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Only a rightwinger would have the gall to use LBJ as an example of a racist, when he was brave enough to sign the Civil Rights act despite living in a state full of racists.

    He also signed the Freedom of Information Act, by the way.

    Was he a flawed man? Of course he was. He was from Texas. That’s a lot to overcome.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    LBJ also signed the Freedom of Information Act.

  • Anonymous

    LOL… Ron Paul has stuck to his positions for 30 years.  It is laughable that you would be so dumb as to make that accusation.

  • Anonymous

    Right.  Which is why we need to elect Ron Paul as he is the only one who will protect our liberty, secure our economic health, and defend our country from enemies foreign and domestic.

  • Anonymous

    Hahaahha…

  • Anonymous

    Or the total morons….Censure!
    Racism is seen and practiced  mostly by racists

  • Anonymous

    Just information how would I have an agenda.

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    FedsTakeOverMediaProofClickMe wrote, in response to without_hate:
    No agenda for you here
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  • Anonymous

    As much as I post I get all types of way out theories sent to me. I am glad when I hear from one of my liberal friends compared to the followers of the conspiracy theories. The liberal run on emotion but most are compassionate and have down to earth reason for their belief.

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    FedsTakeOverMediaProofClickMe wrote, in response to without_hate: Impossible to conceive that people could ever conspire to do anything. I’m not sure why people can be charged with conspiracy if conspiracies themselves are all made up. They only conspiracy going on here is the number of handles covering up the link to that story. Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    JFK isn’t the hero everyone thinks he was. During WW-2 he captained PT-109 and caused the death of several of his crew. Admiral Nimmetz wanted him courtmartialed for disobeying orders. JFK’s father had connections in Washington and had the charges squashed. Later in the 1950′s he became a U.S. Senator and voted against a civil rights act. Of coarse everyone knows he was an adulterer when he became president.

  • Anonymous

    Barry Dalton wrote, in response to without_hate:So you at least admit that global warming exists. You just don’t think Man has anything to do with it? Am I catching your drift?
    I have studied the writing of the various scientist and examined the raw data. I examined the geological history going back ten thousand years. The data  has debunked the theory. The theory is also being pushed by Hansen whom at one time had me convinced that we were in headed into an ice age. I made a fool of my self. I took his agenda driven science to be a fact and argued it constantly. I was the object of many jokes. I still get friendly jabs over my blind acceptance of Hansen science. I believe what the science is telling me. Data shows we are in a cool down cycle not a warming cycle.
    The theory is based on Hansen computer modeling. The modeling is wrong. It’s makes assumption that are not holding up to scientific examination. The modeling assumed that the earth atmosphere held heat at a much higher number than the data showed. NASA hard data for the last eleven years, actual measurement of the atmosphere temperature, shows that the planet shed heat to space.
    The email that was leaked confirms what hard data shows us, that at this time, we are in cool down cycle. The cool down did not agree with the now discredited hockey stick theory so the numbers was doctored. The Russian Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Science has stated that the numbers was distorted and the data coming from Russia is flawed.
    India has set up its own research agency as the numbers were so flawed they no longer accept the study as valid scientific research.

    Then track the money and the players behind the carbon trading scheme. People were poised to make millions. If you are really interested check out the only firmed licensing to deal in carbon and green house gases. It is located in Chicago and its political connections. A Canadian news organization brought this to the surface.
    To get to the truth one has to shed their bias and look at the data and the numbers objectively.

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    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:20 AM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: A Rankled Ron Paul Grapples With Radio Caller’s Newsletter Questions

    Disqus generic email template Barry Dalton wrote, in response to without_hate: So you at least admit that global warming exists.

    You just don’t think Man has anything to do with it?

    Am I catching your drift?  Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    Then you have no respect for your self Henry because your racism is blatant. First of all , I an not a Republican, I am a registered democrat as my father and his father before him. I am from the old democratic party that honor and led the country to prosperity. I am a centrist. The left wing radicals racist like your self as taken over the party and we are stuck with racist polices that hold my Afro Brothers in bondage for crumbs off the table.
    It is not possible to hide your racism. Your words betray you.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 10:59 PM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: A Rankled Ron Paul Grapples With Radio Caller’s Newsletter Questions

    Disqus generic email template

    Henry Wood wrote, in response to without_hate:
    I understand that you resent me pointing out how racist your party is.  I understand your need to accuse me of racism because you are angry that I pointed this out.
    “You could have said that Ron Paul represents a fringe of the
    white majority that hold on to the racist values of the past. That would have been honest and truthful.”

    Actually, that would be total bullchit.  Those of us with our eyes open know that the people who still hold on to “racist values of the past” are not a “fringe,” but a significant portion of the white electorate.  Lying about this gets you nowhere.
    Johnson’s quote upon signing the 1964 CRA was actually: “We have lost the South for a generation.”  He underestimated.  The Dems have lost the south for several generations since then.  He probably didn’t know how deeply and completely the Republiklan party would embrace white racists.

    I actually have a little more respect for racists who don’t lie about what they believe. At least they are honest.  People like yourself, racists who lie about who/what they are, are much worse. Link to comment

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LSAX2XJNNKWLWT5RMMAAF3O4MY Matthew

    @Mo_Fokker:disqus Fact: The Fed, Bilderbergs, the Trilateral Commission, those who committed 9/11and other nefarious groups need to be scared of a Paul Presidency…my best friend’s half-sister makes $76 hourly on the laptop. She has been fired from work for 6 months but last month her paycheck was $7139 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more here… http://x.co/cD5u

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