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Andrea Tantaros: Ron Paul’s Newsletter Comments Are ‘Despicable’ And ‘Disgusting’

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As Kimberly Guilfoyle put it in the opening of today’s Five, “the knives are out for Ron Paul.” With his Iowa poll numbers surging, the other GOP candidates have gone on the offensive, providing a number of colorful, anti-Paul quotes. The Five hosts had some cutting utensils of their own, discussing how Paul’s less mainstream ideas were “sinking” his chances of becoming President or even getting the nomination.

The conversation started after Greg Gutfeld used one of his patented analogies to compare Mitt Romney to a can of beer (it kind of made sense in context). The conversation then turned to what alcoholic drink Paul would be. “It’s crazy, whatever it is,” said Eric Bolling. “It makes you crazy.”

Megyn Kelly Grills Defecting Bachmann Chair Over Ron Paul Bribery Claim

The group discussed the mini-scandal over Paul snatching away Michele Bachmann’s co-chair and then Andrea Tantaros brought up the whole newsletter story:

“I will also say that the controversy around these newsletters, these racist newsletters, homophobic newsletters – we haven’t them a lot on The Five but I have to say, they’re despicable. And a lot of people in the GOP are really turned off by it. I think it’s a big problem for him too. It’s not just foreign policy. The things that he says – ‘Stay in the closet’ to gay people – I mean, it really is disgusting and ridiculous.”

Gutfeld then brought up another analogy* comparing Paul to hard candy in a dish at your grandparents’ place. It’s been there forever and, when you finally taste it, it’s disgusting.

*I have this theory that, every morning after they settle on the show’s lineup, Gutfeld then locks himself in his office and sits alone writing down hundreds and hundreds of analogies, refusing to come out till he has a thousand. I don’t know if this is true, but I like to think it is.

Oh, well. At least Paul’s still got the early-2000′s pop star vote!

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  • Anonymous

    Andrea’s right. Gutfeld should come out already.

  • Anonymous

    Wow…they IGNORE him all year only to give him the spotlight to call him a racist! That Tantaros comment is do disingenuous…I had to laugh after reading it. Assuming Paul REALLY did write that stuff, those comments would actually endear him to the GOP primary voter in Iowa….not be repulsive. This is after all the same electorate that threw out 3 judges for effectively enabling gay marriage in that state.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is so racist that he helped an interracial couple when no one else would, then he picked up the bill: 
    http://www.youtube.com/embed/8Rv0Z5SNrF4

  • Anonymous

    OOOOOOOOk Fox news we get that you don’t like Ron Paul already. Jesus not a word about this until he might win the freaking caucus. They never gave a shit until two weeks ago. What a joke cable news is.

  • Anonymous

     To follow up on my last comment if a baboon was running they wouldn’t care. But if that baboon is about to win, they would pull out as much video of it eating shit as possible.

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

    I think the whole main stream media, including Andrea Tantaros, is despicable. Dr.Paul is the most honorable man in Washington. Does the MSM understand what they have proven what a propaganda machine they are? How dare the American people choose their own president!  The corporate interest have an agenda and it is not in their interest for Americans to regain our freedom. We now have a president and a congress that has declared our country a battlefield where individuals can be locked up indefinitely without due process of law. Just what part of the Constitution allows that?  The only man standing between us and the despots is Ron Paul. Slandering Dr. Paul will only make him stronger. The media has gone to far and exposed how corrupt and controlled it is. .  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

     I love how the GOP establishment screams about the unfairness of playing the race card when it’s coming from the left, but all of a sudden love playing it in spades when they don’t like the GOP front runner.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Fox News finds Ron Paul’s homophobic and racist newsletters ‘despicable and disgusting’? I am shocked!

    What about homophobic and racist rants of other candidates like Santorum, Gingrich, Perry and Bachmann? What about the homophobic and racist rants current and former employees of Fox News that are too many to name here.

    Ah, the cesspool of low IQ Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    Oh they don’t care about them cause two of them worked for Fox. Hell the other two will probably work for them after Iowa.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Though, if Ron Paul wins the Republican nomination, Andrea will be voting for the old racist!!

  • Sadie May

    I’m curious as to how the media would go about disqualifying Dr. Paul if it were discovered that he had a gayblackjewish lover.

    Ron Paul.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dkompes David Kompes

    Now if your looking for a racist you don’t need to go further than Mitt Romney. But no one is interested in that.

  • Anonymous

    After 30 years of five or six newsletters weekly they have only found seven or eight instances of the bad stuff. Lew Rockwell ghostwrote a lot of these letters. It is easy to believe that someone who was working the shifts of a medical doctor and raising kids did not read every letter. 

  • Anonymous

    Regardless of how Paul fans feel about Fox’s coverage of the newsletters, it doesn’t take away from the fact that they’re really disturbing.  I say this as a registered libertarian – and someone who had his picture taken with Paul in 2007 in San Antonio!

    This isn’t a media conspiracy.  Reason Magazine brought this to my attention in 2008:
    http://reason.com/blog/2008/01/11/old-news-rehashed-for-over-a-d

    Reason has been promoting libertarian ideas longer than Paul has been in congress.  So chalking this up to a media or corporate conspiracy is NUTS.

    I like Paul, and I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s a not racist.  I think people that are brushing this off haven’t looked at the full content of some of those newsletters.

  • Anonymous

    I definitely trust Andrea on this.  She knows ‘despicable’ and ‘disgusting’ like few others.

  • Pablo

    Do you have links to the homophobic and racist rants of those other candidates? How about the Fox News employees?

    Thanks in advance!

  • Pablo

    Has Paul said that Rockwell wrote that stuff? Has Rockwell said that he wrote that stuff? And why would you let Rockwell do your ghostwriting without you reading his output?

  • Anonymous

    Andrea Tantaros is OUTRAGED!!

  • http://profiles.google.com/sanjaysingh.boston Sanjay Singh

    This filthy media whore is disgusting.  She did not find it disgusting when:

    9000, American soldiers were being slaughtered for the pleasure of Financial Elite

    When Financial Elite were looting 16 Trillion from American working class and middle class.

    When the GOP and Dems thugs were passing Patriot Act and trillions in free lunch for illegal Aliens and trillions in appropriations for corporations.

    Andrea tantaros is a whore and a parasite.

  • Henry Wood

    “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of
    working and have nobody around them who works, so they literally have no
    habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich said.

    “We’d save lives because Mexican wetbacks, whatever you want to call
    them, the coyotes–they’re not going to do what they’re doing now, all
    right, so people aren’t going to die in the desert.”–Bill Orally

  • Robert Shlumboski

    For my part, I have never had a problem in making the admission, I am a racist.  I hate the human race.  What’s not to hate?  It’s like living on a planet of, Yo Yos.  And media, does an absolutely superb job keeping you yo yos in check, and on task.  A task of their design.  But don’t despair, they are yo yos too, as are the politicians you elect to run your lives.  Homosexuals, are humans, so I hate them to.  I do engage yo yos, have been a yo yo myself.  Even married a yo yo and have yo yo children and relatives.  It’s safe to say, I don’t hate them as much…but completely forbid yo yo behavior in my presence.  The cure for Yo Yo Syndrome, listen to yourself.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Links, facts, truth make no difference to what low IQ Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republican think and believe. So I will not waste my time.

  • Robert Shlumboski

    Oh…and much less to those who don’t even know you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    how does a monthly newsletter get published 6 times per week?…  who would read 6 newsletters a week from the same source?…  i guess that’s a good way to divert responsibility for their content and get your racist message out simultaneously…

    don’t know rockwell, though…  i’ve been wondering why after all this time that no enterprising journalists are asking the question “if not paul, then who did write them?”, rather than badgering paul constantly and getting the same response… 

  • tom

    You need Google Earth to get that girl in the camera shot.

  • Henry Wood

    It’ so funny when Fox robots pretend to care about racism.

  • Anonymous

    True. It started with Cain….of all people. 

  • Anonymous

    Perry.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAJNntoRgA 
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rick-perry-familys-hunting-camp-still-known-to-many-by-old-racially-charged-name/2011/10/01/gIQAOhY5DL_story.html 
    Gingrich
    http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/House/Georgia/Newt_Gingrich/Views/Gay_Marriage/ 
    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/246302/gingrich-obama-s-kenyan-anti-colonial-worldview-robert-costa 
    Santorum
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5-5u3p4ogk&feature=related 
    http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/santorum-i-stand-by-my-man-on-dog-comment/ 
    Bachmann
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20079221-503544.html 
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52946.html 
    “And so people have to make this call now. They have to go to mn.voter.com, they need to contact in particular their Senator, and they need to demand that the people be allowed to vote on this in November (of 2004). Because otherwise, our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that’ll be very soon in our public schools all across the state, beginning in kindergarten.” — Senator Michele Bachmann, appearing as guest on radio program “Prophetic Views Behind The News”, hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.

    There’s plenty of bigoted stuff these people have said or have been involved in, and I did not even touch anything about Muslims. 

  • Anonymous

    I also like Paul, and defend him, but, those newsletters are really bad. 

  • Anonymous

    Racism and bigotry is bad for Republican turnout, how?

    Just about every CON on this site traffics in that language on a daily basis.

    Racism and bigotry is only going to be a problem in a GENERAL ELECTION. Which is not happening.

    But thinking that racism and bigotry will TURN OFF CONS? BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    LOL

  • Anonymous

    Who is this airhead?! We thought Fox preferred angry blondes.

  • Anonymous

    That video is about as genuine as John Kerry’s wounds for which he got the Purple Heart.

  • Anonymous

    Real poor children – as referenced – have no idea who their daddy is. Of course, with their mothers, it is a multiple, multiple, multiple choice question.

    You have problem with illegal immigrants being called wetbacks, but I am sure you have absolutely no problem with conservatives called rednecks.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Do you know Gordon Blower?

  • Anonymous

    Honestly the only real difference between libs vs cons over racism is that libs are sneakier or feel more guilt about it. Give me a break, we are supposed to celebrate this or that groups uniqueness but in all positives yet if we notice any negatives about that group, walah, we’re bigots.

  • Anonymous

    I know, you’d almost think their slogan of “fair and balanced” was total BS or something!  LOL

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, telling gays to stay in the closet. What good conservative would say anything as hateful as that?

  • Anonymous

    Now that the new year is approaching, let us make a resolution: NEVER, EVER use the words racist, racism and race again.

    Let us recognize the undeniable fact that some of us will never ever like those who are not like themselves.

    Let us acknowledge that to those in the Detroit ghetto, whitey will always be responsible for the illegitimate fatherless little bastard that pays the    

  • Anonymous

    If you have to explain your analogies, they are not winners.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LDO6LIQBI2JQ4Q5MWLWBKGKSJY bensanity

    That was a highbrow joke/comment. Maybe it’s because I’m a little buzzed, but bravo sir. *Golf clap*

  • Anonymous

    ok, I have to say it again, it wasn’t one or two, it isnt this or that. It was THE CENTRAL THEME OF THE NEWSLETTERS,Sane Libertarians know or soon will to avoid this shit like a dirty used heroine needle.

    Libertariasm is a beautiful and elegant philosophy (although not perfect) it has no need, and neither does conservatism to attach itself in anyway to this”vessel” and the conspiracies and hate with in it. Also Liberals, don’t be smug, We righties will take care iof our baggage. You worry about the assortment of Van Jones/Answer coalitions/OWS/Marxisr/anarchist shit attaching itself to your side. Crazy is crazy and it must be excluded,isolated and expunged whether on the left or ride side of the ideological spectrum

    To Wit Ron Paul and “Jewish question” What is the question you ask  (ohh wow) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O285w-9Qr0s&context=C37d3137ADOEgsToPDskI1L0mbvkbjwv_fwKvu4qEE

    Also here are FIFTY separate scanned Newsletters, http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game-over-scans-of-over-50-ron-paul.html

  • Anonymous

    No comparison to those candidates who have said a few isolated statements (none of which had the naked hate of those newsletters) and Pauls shit. However, Ralph Nader, Cynthia Mckinney and of course the pond scum at the “Globalization” riots and “Occupations” just called to say hi, jerkwad

  • Anonymous

    All that being, I’ve been hard of Uncle Ron (for good reason) but he’s right about a lot in terms of govt over reach and lest we all forget “BARACK OBAMA IS A STUTTERING CLUSTERFUCK OF A MISERABLE FAILURE.

  • Anonymous

    Well, judging from how he reacted to Bruno, I doubt it. Then again, you didn’t see Bruno making any moves on say Denis Kucinich or Al Sharpton

  • Anonymous

    prisonplanet.com, infowars.com

  • Anonymous

    Hey.  You have a fake name.

  • Anonymous

    Racist idiot. 

  • Dead_Air

    Two points:

    1) you’re quick to assume that poor children don’t know who their fathers are “… it is a multiple, multiple, multiple choice question.”

    2) are you OK with calling Mexicans ‘wetbacks?’

  • Dead_Air

    A very good point.

  • Robert Shlumboski

    Papa…you don’t appear to be a Yo Yo.  Can I have your autograph?  And etch it in stone, if you will.

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes in my spare time I watch Maury Whatshisname on TV. He raises the question more than I ever could.

    I am OK with calling illegal Mexican invaders WETBACKS as long as you are OK with calling regular, honest and hard-working conservative American citizens REDNECKS.   

  • Anonymous

    Andrea Tantaros is “outraged” by Ron Paul’s “racist” comments– but dead silent when Newt Gingrich says since black children all grow up to be pimps and whores anyway, they should be trained to clean toilets.
    Funny, you’d think Tantaros would know a pimp and a whore when she saw one. Can you say talentless, butt-kissing phony?

    http://www.newyorkgritty.net

  • Sadie May

    haha… no, I doubt that Dr. Paul has had many gay lovers.

    I was simply entertaining the thought that they would relish bashing him for being gay, much – or more so – as they enjoy bashing him for (allegedly) being anti-gay.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Well, yes, you do.

  • Pablo

    1) You seem quick to assume that poor children in poor neighborhoods are black.

    2) “Wetbacks” refers to people who are wet from crossing the Rio Grande, that is to say border jumpers, hence the reference to coyotes. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wetback It is not synonymous with “Mexican.”

    And I’m not sure how O’Reilly talking about how their lives could be saved amounts to racism. I assume that you’re aware of the horrors that often await smuggled people in the desert. Further, Mexican is not a race.

  • Pablo

    You’ll not waste your time looking because you’re talking out your ass again, you cannot back it up, and you know it.

  • Pablo

    You seem to think that believing marriage is between a man and a woman is homophobic. It is not. You also seem to think that homosexuality is normal. It is not. It is objectively and obviously a deviance from the norm, which is heterosexuality.

    You also seem to think that Muslim is either a race or evidence of homosexuality. I trust you feel the same about Christians and Mormons.

  • Dead_Air

    Since I can’t seem to reply to your comment Pablo, I’ll reply to mine and hope you catch it.  

    “…You seem quick to assume that poor children in poor neighborhoods are black. …”I don’t see anywhere in my post where I mentioned the race of the children at all.  I am commenting on the generalization by GavinsPapa that poor children “…have no idea who their daddy is….”  

    I grew with plenty of poor people, of all stripes, and they knew who their fathers were.

    Yeah, I’m not OK with the term ‘wetbacks.’  It’s a bigoted term that reeks of intolerance.

    Were you responding to GavinsPapa and accidentally replied to me instead?

  • Anonymous

    I was liking some of your new stuff but I always enjoy the oldies, son.

  • Anonymous

    If you aspire to be relevant, present your own views not some recycled crap.

    Prove that most of the pimps on any back street of any American city are not black.

    Prove that most out-of-wedlock children, also known as BASTARDS are not of the African-American persuation.

    Prove that all the black mayors of  large American cities eased the suffering of black constituents.  Never mind mayors, how about Senators and Representatives in the HouseÉ

    Has the presence of the likes of Jesse Jackson Junior or Sheila Jackson Lee eased the hardship of black Americans.

    Have any of the aforementioned and the countless similar black freeloaders ever done anything to improve the well-being of their constituents or did they just act to pad their own wallet. 

    Has any of you hopeless fools realize that it was the Republicans who stood up for you, not the George Wallace and Robert Byrd kind of Democrats.

  • Anonymous

    “You seem to think that believing marriage is between a man and a woman is homophobic. It is not.”
    This is false. I look at the reasoning that is given to justify that claim.

    “You also seem to think that homosexuality is normal. It is not. It is objectively and obviously a deviance from the norm, which is heterosexuality. ”

    I believe homosexuality is a natural phenomenon…and there is scientific data that proves this. There is a difference between saying that and saying it is normal. Deviance in behaviors is highly subjective and relative. It changes as society change. Stop conflating the two concepts. 

    “You also seem to think that Muslim is either a race or evidence of homosexuality.” 
    Where the heck did you manufacture this anecdote from? First of all, it makes absolutely no sense. My post was talking about bigotry. Bigotry is not confined to race or sexuality. 

    “I trust you feel the same about Christians and Mormons.”

    I am an agnostic. I despise all religions equally. 

  • Anonymous

    “Proving” that most pimps are black or not black? What the hell are you talking about?
    I’m saying whether you think  Ron Paul’s newsletter or Newt’s rants are racist or not, BE CONSISTENT. Fox News can’t stand Ron Paul, so double-standard phony Andrea Tantaros kisses their butts while ignoring more extreme comments from Gingrich.

    And yes, Jesse Jackson is as much of a phony a-hole as the current crop of Republican candidates.
    And talking about brainwashing and recycled crap: Tear yourself away from Faux News and Rush Limpdick and get out into the real world. Just a thought. Maybe you’ll even make a (gasp!) black friend. 

  • tom

    In her free time that girl carries oil through the Straits of Hormuz.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LDO6LIQBI2JQ4Q5MWLWBKGKSJY bensanity

    Agnosticism is the most pussy of all religions. There’s either a higher power above us or there’s not. Pick one! You’re not going to heaven if you’re sitting on the fence.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=505100313 Trevor Cason

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