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Ron Paul And Ali Velshi Engage In Spirited Debate Over Alleged Media Bias

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Ron Paul appeared as a guest on CNN’s American Morning Tuesday, and put on a lively, sometimes-contentious interview with Ali Velshi. The visit began in a state of calm, with talk about Paul’s surge in Iowa, as Velshi quoted a Nate Silver study that gives Paul a 52% chance of winning the caucus.

“We certainly do have a chance,” Paul said. “I think we’re in a good position. I’m really enjoying it.”

Velshi quickly got into more serious topics, like Paul’s advocating for the elimination of federal departments and, more specifically, his belief that the Federal Reserve should be scuttled. Velshi asked Paul if the Fed — and central banking as a whole — is a major problem:

“How can you deny it when you look at the world crisis? We’re in the worst financial crisis in all of history. To defend central banking and ignore the fact that central banking has brought us to this crisis? People are living with blindfolders on.”

Paul later added, “We encourage this idea of spending money instead of saving money.”

Velshi then brought up quotes attributed to a Paul newsletter from 20 years ago that included racist and prejudiced ideals. Paul has disavowed them several times and contends that a person on his staff of six to eight people wrote it. He added that he was practicing medicine at the time and didn’t have much oversight with the newsletter.

“This has been addressed for 20 years and nobody accuses me of that type of belief or language,” Paul said. “I’m a true civil libertarian. I think people dig these up when people think that, ‘Oh, his economic policies are winning, his foreign policies are winning, his monetary policies are winning,’ so they have to dig these things up which they really can’t pin on me because they’ve been disavowed and they’re old. It wasn’t good but I didn’t write them. And those aren’t my beliefs. So I sleep well.”

When Velshi pressed Paul on the topic, the GOP candidate challenged people to read everything he’s said or written, at which point they’d realize the comments were a glaring anomaly. “These charges are a total contradiction to everything I’ve said and everything I believe.”

RELATED: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz And Guest Defend Ron Paul From Fox News Attacks?

Velshi asked Paul if the media establishment had been fair to him. Paul began by laughing.

“You mean whether they’re biased?”

“Okay, do you think they’re biased against you?”

“Well why don’t you go look at Jon Stewart‘s reports when he defends me on the bias of the media. He mocked the media for the way they’ve treated me through the campaign. But I don’t get upset about that. That’s just the way you guys work. It’s no big deal to me. And the more progress I make in challenging the status quo, the stronger they will emphasize picking this and ignoring the important issues of what freedom is all about.”

Paul then brought the conversation back to the comments Velshi brought up earlier.

“Why don’t you go look at … a lot of comments [I've made] on the war on drugs and how racist the enforcement of drug laws are?”

“I know you do. We follow…”

“Yeah, you know, you don’t. You don’t. You just — you’re concentrating on something else. So somebody, some day, ought to look at the whole picture rather than picking out something I didn’t write and I have disavowed.”

“It’s the cost of surging in the polls,” Velshi concluded, as the two talked over each other, before cutting Paul off for a commercial break.

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  • http://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew The Morning Spew

    All anyone needs to do to realize media bias is understand how quickly the media latched on to the bogus premise that there is a “one percent” ruling class in this country. The OWS is a bogus idea whose basis is a lie. There is no One Percent, just as there is no “99 %.”  A little research and common sense would have proven this, but the media will never debunk anything which furthers their liberal causes. Here’s the video every one of them should be required to watch.
    http://themorningspew.com/2011/12/20/demolishing-the-myth-of-the-one-percent/

  • Anonymous

    The headline is priceless… “…Alleged Media Bias”.  As if there is any other kind. C’mon, seriously? It’s a fact that so-called reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican and to think they’re pure as the driven snow to write fair and balanced articles is delusional. There’s nothing “alleged” about it.

  • Anonymous

    How brilliantly Ron is handling them! He’s rock solid and it’s practically impossible to rehash the things and accuse him of flip-flopping on any important issue.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=756784272 Rework Oh Ryan

    Ali Velshi failed to understand the point, as most people do.  If surging in the polls causes scrutiny over Ron Paul’s record, then it should be across the board.  Scrutinize his consistent voting record too.  How about, as he said, every word he has ever said.  Where’s the scrutiny over that?  If there was, they wouldn’t have much on Ron.  But instead, they pick something that didn’t even come out of his mouth, to try and attack him on.  If scrutiny is the cost of surging in the polls, then look at everything the man has done/said.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    Media Bias?
    That would be the “Fair and Balanced” station.

  • Anonymous

    Why is it Ali Velshi doesnt’ ask these same kinds of questions of democrats; Ali has never really broached Obama’s background, the whole lurid affair he supposedly had, his lack of transparency, etc.  CNN, like the rest of the media is not “alledgedly” biased – they are opnely campaigning for Obama.  Why do you folks continue to try to deny the obvious?

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul has categorically denied this and has even gotten the support of the President Austin Chapter of the NAACP, Nelson Linder, who said he is not a racist.

    Should Ron Paul have checked what was being written in his name? Definitely. But President Obama was given the benefit of the doubt with Jeremiah Wright and he had known Wright since the late 80s.

    And really, what is worse not knowing what is being written under name, or having a fundraiser held in YOUR NAME (Obama) by a KNOWN TERRORIST (William Ayers)?

  • Anonymous

    Your mouth is so big, you eat bananas sideways.

  • Anonymous

    Did he say he could not disown a man who said GD the US and was so close to that man  that he compared him to the woman who raised him?

  • Anonymous

    Dr Ron Paul is a racist because he believes in civil rights, civil
    liberties and individual rights. Dr Ron Paul is a racist because he
    refuses to bomb brown people in Africa and the Middle East. Dr Ron Paul
    is a racist because he made an exception to his strong adherence to the
    constitution, and voted for Martin Luther King holiday. Dr Ron Paul is a racist because as POTUS  he would have vetoed Jim Crow laws due to his strong adherence to individual rights. God Protect and
    Bless the greatest statesman the USA has ever seen.

  • Anonymous

    It’s interesting to note Fox seems to be making a stronger effort to discredit and minimize Ron Paul as well.
    Yes, people who study and work in that field tyend to be more liberal. That’s the bias of human nature rather than an intentional effort to distort. The larger problem is a growing lack of fact based investigative journalism and doing cheap emotional contrived controversy pieces. IMO

    It’s ridiculous for Velshi to waste time rehashing that old crap and then try to justify the lack of relevant journalism.
    “Could you find out who wrote those things?”
    Who gives a crap! It was years ago. Maybe you could spend time on what’s relevant today.

  • Anonymous

    You are really spewing all over yourself. You believe that horse manure? The gap between rich and poor is the largest it has ever been and now rivals Mexico. Everything to protect the working American is stripped away. Unions are busted, consumer protections are taken away.  The right to sue is being diminished. You and your buddy are a couple of stick your head in the sand kind of guys. I’m in the 1% and you have cranial rectal inversion.

  • Anonymous

    the more media tries to slam him the better he comes out-keep bringing it!

  • Anonymous

    Another moron talking about things he knows nothing about like he is an expert. Now I am going to clue you in on something… The FCC (You know what the FCC is, right?) under the leadership of Michael Powell changed the rules of media ownership 10 years ago to allow large corporation to own as many TV and Radio stations as they want. It used to be that  one company could only own 7 media outlets. You know what that meant? Diversity in opinions. Now with media concentrated, you don’t get the diversity of opinion you get propaganda and it is RIGHT winged propaganda from FOX and the right wing talked radio shows that has created this vicious cycle of distrust in America. Screw you and your stupid beliefs, pal. You wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped you in the face.

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

    What a hack Ali Velshi came off as.  I know Ron Paul fans have a lot of nicknames but I think the journalists who have been wrong every step of the way this election cycle deserve one too.

    Ali Velshi is a Journatard.

  • Anonymous

    Barry, is that you? The meds not working?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QOJQQIPMNVFQMGLZMVTNEOJV4I MGJ

    Sarah is that you????  What?  The media not paying you enough attention…

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Utter, unexpurgated nonsense.  The media traveled to Indonesia to visit Obama’s GRADE SCHOOL. (Remember “Madrassa” gate?)

    They played guilt by association with Obama, whether it be from William Ayers, or Reverend Wright…. yet a newsletter with RON PAUL’S NAME on it is off-limits?

    Really?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Case in point above?

    Ron Paul was AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  It’s not a leap to believe he has a problem with minorities.

    New York Magazine:
    News Bulletin: Ron Paul Is a Huge Racist

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/news-bulletin-ron-paul-is-a-huge-racist.html

    Good place to start.

    –Cobra

  • http://twitter.com/buzzfisher1 Buzz Fisher

    Let’s get Ron Paul to the top of the iTunes charts in time for Christmas! Download the Ron Paul anthem (“Bombs” by Golden State) and then send it to 19 of your friends as a gift. All proceeds go to the Revolution Super PAC.http://itunesbomb.com/

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    If Ron Paul DID write those newsletters that BEAR HIS NAME and BYLINE, he’s unquestionably racist. If somebody else wrote them, he should name the people and clear the air.

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    Only from the minds of the sick and delusional… She is the one looking for the 2nd gunman and that we didn’t land on the moon.

  • Anonymous

    lol!!! you are going over the deep end…

  • Anonymous

    Free and sick..

  • Anonymous

    “Alleged” media bias?  It was right there, in every second of this clip.  I don’t agree with Mr. Paul on much but I do feel that the Industrial Military Complex is what’s destroying the United States.  Bring some of that money home and spend it on the crumbling infrastructure.

  • Anonymous

    Did you graduate from high school?

  • Anonymous

    How many jobs have you created in your lifetime?

  • Anonymous

    How many jobs have you been fired from?

  • Anonymous

    How many people of color do you have as friends?

  • Anonymous

    He opposes the drug war which disproportionately affects minorities.

    He opposed the civil rights act on the grounds that said private businesses can’t discriminate. I agree with his interpretation. The 1st amendment protects speech no matter how incendiary. He said that the government should not discriminate, but the fact that you can tell private property owners what they can do in their establishments oversteps the powers of the government.

  • Anonymous

    Were you parents as big a racists as you are?

  • Anonymous

    Obama had a fundraiser in HIS NAME hosted by a TERRORIST.

  • Anonymous

    And JFK opposed the CRA of 1957? Was he a racist?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, that sure describes your demented whack-job posts, son.

  • Adam Rodriguez

    RON KICKED HIS ARSE. I am so glad he is bringing out the hammer.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    The Presidents on Mount Rushmore were racists so I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised about Kennedy.

    –Cobra

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Hey “GRAMPS”.
    You know you are getting senile when you start in with grade school insults.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Yeah, and I bet Ron Paul buys Playboy for the articles.

    1.  The only reason the drug war “disproportionately affects minorities” is because of police racial profiling, since there are FAR more White illegal drug users in America than minorities.

    2. You agree with racial discrimination just like Paul.  Not shocking.

    3. Private property owners can be as racist as they like. You just want a back door private Jim Crow for business.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    The Founding Fathers were “terrorists” according to King George III.

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    I don’t support racial discrimination Cobra, but I will support your right to do it on your own property. And if you do racially discriminate on your own property I will boycott it by any means necessary. I obviously am against discrimination being Indian myself. But you can do what you want on your property or business. And I can react to it by staying away from your property and boycotting your business. Don’t try to conflate the right to be a racist with me supporting racism.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You’re being played like a fiddle by the Libertarian message.

    http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/252041_10150195156378589_6277368588_7276546_6674858_n.jpg

     You can go right ahead and place your faith in the “free market.”  The Black man you’re conversing with knows about America’s abominable treatment of minorities over it’s history, and that there are conservative groups who wax nostalgic about reliving it.

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    You gonna buy it with that paper money Paul thinks is unconstitutional?

  • http://twitter.com/fakename8181 fake name

    i have been mugged about 10 times in my life and not ever was it a white guy.  unfortunately black culture promotes the thug to hero status.  i am close friends with several african canadians and they are also ashamed of how north american black culture has evolved

  • Joke Scareborough

    Actually Cobra, the media traveled to Indonesia to promote Obama and to tamp down any controversy, and they did the same thing when it came to Ayers and Wright. The media didn’t “cover” any of those controversies…they “covered” them up.

    Ask yourself honestly if any Republican candidate went to a church for 20+ years that preached anti-Semitism and anti-Black hatred, if the media would allow that candidate to have even the slightest chance at winning an election. The truthful answer is that the media would force that candidate to withdraw from the election in disgrace.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Who are the people in the top 1% that are exploiting economic injustice in America?

    CEO’s and the top managers of Financial Institutions who bankrupt and foreclose Americans
    CEO’s and the top managers of Insurance Companies who want tax payer bailouts to pay for their risky behaviors
    CEO’s and the top managers of Auto Companies who want tax payer bailouts to pay for their risky behaviors
    Corporations who beg for lower taxe rates even though they take in billions of dollars annually in profits
    Wall Street traders who create and hide fraud
    1%’ers, individuals who sell influence to politicians to help their own businesses at the expense of our representative political process: Donald Trump, Koch Brothers, George Soros, Grover Norquist

    As an American, I can vote for a President and a congress, governers, senators etc to represent me. I can send a letter, and email, or request a meeting (that will never be granted) to speak to my representatives.

    These 1%rs can offer a politician billions of dollars in advertising, influence with their followers, and hidden capital and resources that don’t have to be reported to the American people in order for the politician to stay in power. This is unfair, should be illegal, and ends the representative process that we are supposed to have in America.

    Why am I voting if a sit-down dinner with Donald Trump will determine and dictate our laws and National policies.  This is the example that your video should have highlighted and it should have been called: How to bribe an American politician at the expense of the American people.

  • http://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew The Morning Spew

    Yeah, but you will still vote for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Desperation tactics on the part of the anti-Ron Paul brigade: dredge up comments made by someone else “associated” with him in the past, or a current supporter who is also a nutcase. Try to convolute the obvious: Ron Paul is the only sincere, reasonable, and consistent politician on the 2012 menu, with (shocking) audacity of independent thought.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     You’re saying no Southern Baptist could ever be President?  You’re a little late with that one. Mormons believed that Blacks couldn’t go to Heaven before 1978, which is well within Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman’s lifetimes.

    Fox News on Obama’s school?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKJixL–ms

    Reverend Wright on Hannity:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNTGRL0OJWQ

    Fox News on William Ayers
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV_h-XwchkY

    Do I even have to post up “Hate Radio” on Obama?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    Precisely. Well said.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    My 401K has been mugged several times in my life and not ever was it by a Black guy.  There certainly weren’t Black people at the head of Lehman Brothers or A.I.G. Unfortunately, White American culture promotes corporate greed, cut-throat capitalism and abject materialism to almost god-like status. I’m close friends with many middle class and working class people who are ashamed of how base and corrupt Wall Street and Corporate America has become.

    –Cobra

  • http://twitter.com/Spokker Spokker

    Man criticizes blacks in print. Name names. Fire him. Tar and feather him.

    Mainstream politicians destroy black communities and families with welfare and the drug wars, elect them over and over again.

  • Anonymous

    THIS is the coverage we need about Ron Paul. GET RID OF HIM!

  • Anonymous

    His comments about Bachmann Hating Muslims are BS. So if BS quotes are attributed to him, then that’s only fair.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul can’t win!

    Ron Paul can’t win!

    And if he does, then Iowa is irrelevant….bla bla bla.

    Ron Paul is a racist!

    He’s a Jew hater!

    He’s cold hearted!

    He’s the big bad wolf! He’ll steal and eat your little baby if you don’t watch out.

    Can you smell the fear and disdain for the truth? The air is so thick with it that you can cut it with a knife………. ………..Newt? Romney? –or any of the rest of the welfare-warfare neocons? What about those BS throwers? Yawn…..Is that the best you got?!? Ron Paul……..Baby!!!!

    The neocon propagandists and the presstitutes are going to be out in force advancing a massive effort to discredit Ron Paul: Central to their effort will be fear mongering the threats of both North Korea and Iran.

    They will attempt to sow seeds of doubt on Paul’s economic plan. Yes, the what-to-do-about-Paul conversation has begun! The presstitutes are portraying Paul’s proposal of a trillion dollar cut in spending and the elimination of five bloated federal departments as a Mad-Max scenario…What a laugh. Obama has added over four trillion in debt and is spending amerika into oblivion, yet Paul is wrong for wanting to make meaningful cutbacks in runaway government spending? The welfare-warfare Empire-USA is going to fail partly because presstitutes can’t see the edge of the cliff and Ron Paul can. Paul says, stop! They say, no!

    The old, discredited charge of racism is also going to be used. Ron Paul answered those charges already: Youtube it, and watch it for yourself.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CoQWAXuUyI

    The truth is that a large percentage, maybe even a majority, of neocons want to wage war with bullets, bombs and boots on the ground if that’s what it takes to change the regime in Iran. They are afraid of a mushroom cloud being created by a “madman.”…….. BOOM, and Israel is gone…….or maybe New York, too. Ron Paul cannot seem to overcome that palpable fear and present a plan which prevents such an outcome. It seems that amerikans what guaranteed security no matter the cost.

    T. Jefferson’s philosophy of “peace, commerce, & honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none” has been discarded for a kleptocratic-interventionist amerikan-hegemony advanced by the transnationals who wish to exploit the energy resources of foreign countries. In pursuing this agenda, amerika has made some enemies, indeed. Blowback! Blowback is the neocon foreign policy. This policy of violence is in direct opposition to Jefferson’s principles.

    The current and past tensions in the Middle East are not founded on the growing of lettuce–no, that’s not why amerika is over there– but, rather, it is oil that is what the fuss/fuse is really all about: oil and Israel. Ron Paul just can’t seem to articulate to enough amerikans that economic and moral superiority are paramount in redefining and maintaining American exceptionalism for the long term. Again, long-term exceptionalism is better achieved though free-market capitalism, intrinsic currency and a foreign policy which reduces amerikan militarism.

    Moreover, America ceased to be truly exceptional when its foreign policy became one based on military hegemony rather than one based on “peace, commerce, & honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” Ron Paul is not going to change the minds of those who have been scared to death or those who salivate over Iranian blood

    The Army and Marines lost 4,500 as dead, more than 30,000 wounded (many of them amputees) and countless others with mental and emotional problems which will haunt both them and their families for the rest of their lives. Many of these vets will end up on the street squatting with other vets from past wars. Yet, what was accomplished? Did anybody of significance cheer amerikans as they left Iraqi? Where were the parades for our troops who liberated Iraqi? The only thing I saw was groups of people burning amerikan flags as the troops departed the country. Does any critical thinker out there in La La Land really believe that amerika won the hearts and minds of the Iraqis? Patrick J. Buchanan has written a fine, thoughtful article on the subject of Iraqi which is worth reading
    Remember, by invading Iraq amerika solved none of any of the long-term problems in the region or its oil dependency—-NONE. All of the money spent and blood spilled to subsidize the highly profitable transnationals was it really worth it? Was it worth all the hate that amerika has to now bear for decades to come?

    Currently, it seems that the ignorant masses and their war-mongering, neocon leaders want to wage war on Iran, a country three times the size of Iraq. So, how much is that going to cost?
    Does endlessly waging war in the Middle East really sound like a viable, long-term plan? Or does this sound like a guaranteed method to implode what is left of the amerikan economy?
    Conclusion: amerika needs leadership that can achieve “peace, commerce, & honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” ……That leader would be Ron Paul.
    End the Fed. End the militarism. End crony capitalism. End the fear. End the BS!

    Ron Paul 2012

  • Anonymous

    The propaganda media are owned by Big Corporations.., thus they are part of the ‘crony capitalism’ the claim to decry and have tasked their shills to attack the one who would cause things to change.

      the civil rights act :

     thus I suppose you are of the belief that Rosa parks should have just continued sitting in the back of the bus until the government made it ok to do otherwise ? or that the sit-in protestors at Woolworths should have just waited until the government made it ok ?

    Tell me, do black people have to let white people into their homes ( and vice versa ) ?  Why not ?

    It is government force that Ron Paul opposes. Social issues are changed by social and cultural pressures and viewpoints.

    Where are your protests against such things like ; Black Entertainment network.., or even the Black Congressional Caucus ? Are they not inherently exclusive organizations ( based on race ) ?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    How has welfare “destroyed” Black communities in ways that the outsourcing of labor overseas has not?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    These claims are tired. If you want to believe them, you will. If you know anything at all about Ron Paul, you won’t. It’s that simple.

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

    cobra,
    if a black guy owns a restuarant, should he be forced to serve KKK men?that is what you are implying when you are blind to the consequences of abolishing property rights.so everytime a black man is thinking of boycotting a white jerk establishment is he indulging in racial discrimination? people dont become good people by legislation.society has changed,that is why there are few bigots today.slavery was outlawed in 1865 and it still took the govt 100  years for the civil rights law? why? because the society changed and govt just jumped on the bandwagon.if you think govt had the right intentions,why didnt they do it earlier.think.think again thru all your propositions logically and not surficially and emotionally

  • pravin varma

    ron paul PUBLISHED 14 newsletters.have youe ever published anything? do you know how ghost writing worked in the pre internet era? do you go about checking everything on the internet?people sign non disclosure agreements when you have ghost writers.so,someone who ron paul hired turned out not be a politically correct fellow.big freaking deal.how does that reflect on paul.if obama can work with eric -racist-holder and get a free pass,why not give a real civil libertarian a break

  • pravin varma

    72% of black children are born to unwed mothers who are on welfare.proof enough that welfare did what 200 years of slavery could not? it destroyed the black family.outsourcing is bad? then why not make your own food,build your own houses,sew own clothes etc.you outsource all those tasks to other people on a daily basis.do you hate brown and yellow people because they sell stuff cheaply to americans?you are an international racist.or does your love for humanity apply to only those with an american passport?

  • Anonymous

    It’s relevant if paul said those things,it’s not if he didn’t.Paul did appear to be tap dancing.

  • Ben H

    Who cares I have been yelled at many times for just being white black people.  Do I hate black people? No!  I have probably said some things to other people in frustration or jest sometimes about another race and so have everyone I have ever met of any other race.  Sometimes it is funny sometimes it isn’t but as long as no-one is mistreating another race I think it makes it easier to get along. This is like a childish argument in a playground.  We are all adults, just treat each other as you would like to be treated and we can all get along together and live in peace!

  • http://twitter.com/GamerAndy Gamer Andy (Adam)

    yeah good call, she just wants to bomb more brown people.  But Muslims?  Oh, they’re her favorite.

  • http://twitter.com/GamerAndy Gamer Andy (Adam)

    don’t look over here!  Wouldn’t want to talk about what’s wrong with our country when theres 20 year old quasi-scandal to be rehashed

  • http://twitter.com/GamerAndy Gamer Andy (Adam)

    Here’s the president of the Austin NAACP speaking about his 20 year relationship with Dr. Paul.  But totally, your “evidence” is much better.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvAuSXq5etA 

  • Anonymous

    I disagree. He appeared to be dealing with a subject that has already been dealt with. It was years ago and it’s been discussed before. He didn’t write them. He doesn’t feel that way. In a country full of serious problems dredging up something that was dea;t with years ago is a waste of time and certainly not any type of journalism.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

      If a Black guy wants to racially discriminate in a private eating establishment he should form a private dining club, and NOT a government licensed business that provides a “Public accommodation.”  It’s really that simple. There’s no law preventing the KKK from discriminating against who attends their cross burnings, even if they serve refreshments or not.

     Why was there race based chattel slavery in America to begin with?  Because predominantly White male land owners wanted cheap labor. Jump to today…predominantly White owned corporations STILL want cheap labor, and will out source jobs overseas where we find people working in sweat shop conditions for slave wages, or “in source” illegal immigrants to work under hazardous conditions, off the books without benefits.  The “demand” for cheap labor never changed.

     The American People are the government. Never forget that.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    I’m a song writer, illustrator, and political cartoonist. I have published works.  You’re damn straight I know exactly what the content is in all of my songs and cartoons.
     
     ”Politically Correct” hardly describes what was printed in those newsletters.  Pravin, if you hate Blacks, Jews, Gays and Lesbians, that’s your issue. Man up and admit to it.  That’s all I’m asking of you and Ron Paul.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    There’s been something wrong with our country since 1776. Why are you defending Paul for his racist, anti-semitic and homophobic newsletters?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Thank you. We’ve got to get these people profitable without stepping on the heads of the poor and middle-class. Surely there’s another way for them to make money and succeed in business.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Ron Paul on the Civil Rights Act of 1964
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMCwr72Dig

    Ron Paul–Newsletters and endorsements
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4P87p-Arcw&feature=related

    Case closed.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    I am an Independent who leans Democratic.

    But Ron Paul is getting a strong look. If he can modify his policies to balance the budget, while securing the livelyhood of the middle-class I would be closer to being on board.

    My problems with him are:

    He wants to stop subsidizing education, which will initially raise tuition costs dramatically, and hopefully the cost may eventually go down. I fear he is pulling an Alan Greenspan and trusting that the Private Sector will lower their prices in reaction to lower enrollment. But ultimately what will happen is higher prices due to lower enrollment and college itself will become a delicacy catered to the very rich.

    Deregulation: I fear his view that local states and cities will regulate themselves will lead to an outbreak of salmanilla poisoning from Wisconsin and defective baby cribs from Maine. Only when many people die will we find the need for regulation again, realizing that we cannot trust someone with a profit motive to produce safe products, when they can produce advertising to sell unsafe products easier.

    A Balanced Budget Amendment: I fear that in order to balance the budget, making the pie smaller, the loudest and most expensive voices, again, will be the only ones heard. He is not doing anything about the corruption in the political process, so who’s to say that the very rich will determine that they can keep their giant piece of pie, while everyone else has to share the crumbs. You have to do something about the money > influence > power circle of hell before you start cutting middle-class and poor benefits and services.

    Mitt Romney is a used car salesman and would sell his own mother into slavery for a dollar.

    Newt Gingrich has so many skeletons in his insider washington old school closet that he had to by additional houses with more closets.

    Rick Santorum is a racist who would kill 1.2 million muslims because they want to build a power station.

    Rick Perry can’t string two sentences together and only cares about tax cuts to oil companies.

    My 13 yr old son would be a better Presidential candidate then the imbesol that is Michelle Bachman.

    And I like John Huntsman, but no one else does.

    Obama’s every step has been fighting for things I believe are priorities: Ending wars, healthcare, deficit reduction, aid to the poor and middle class.

    Is it my fault Obama is the only one speaking to my issues?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    The United States Government is comprised of United States Citizens. “We the People”….remember?

      Rosa Parks and the Woolworth Lunch Counter sit-ins weren’t protests against the Federal Government. They were against STATE’S RIGHTS, LOCAL Government, and the racist Whites supporting Jim Crow laws.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96PKWL1b9gs&feature=related

     If your argument is that racist Whites in control of state and local government would’ve calmly relinquished Jim Crow without federal intervention, you’re fooling yourself.

    George Wallace
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLLDn7MjbF0&feature=related

     The Congressional Black Caucus isn’t a private business.

    Black Entertainment Television is owned by Viacom, which is run by a guy named Sumner Redstone. Psst—Sumner ain’t Black.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

      And here’s H.K. Edgerton, a Black man singing “Dixie” while dressed in full Confederate Regalia.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-UEDAqdfA

     I don’t have much respect for either of them.

    –Cobra

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SJMBJAYMH3T2J6V2C6OJT2YONA Dave

    Although I appreciate you giving Ron Paul a change, the economics that you use in your post are unfortunately faulty.  Any time the demand for something is subsidized, such as education (and healthcare) the demand and therefore the price of it increases.  There is really no logical reason to expect taking away government subsidies to increase prices.  

    Your example of deregulation with salmanilla and baby cribs also doesn’t make much sense.  Whenever you go to KFC to buy dinner, there is no government regulator that checks the chicken before it is sold to you.  Yet you still go and buy the chicken and more often than not KFC decides to not serve you poisoned chicken, despite the lack of a government regulator there to check it.  In this regard, the private sector works remarkably well in preventing you from getting sick.

    It’s odd that you compare Ron Paul to Alan Greenspan, when Greenspan embodies the corporate crony capitalism that Ron Paul is dedicated to fighting against and which he rails against in almost any of his speeches. 

  • Ben H

    You get it.

  • Anonymous

    We need to keep the dumbed down US voters occupied with Tebow, racism, gays, right, left as  FEMA prepares for emergency camps for US citizens as Obama signs the NDAA law. Another missed opportunity from CNN and another one of Dr Ron Paul’s predictions coming to pass. I guess that makes him racist too?

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    “There is really no logical reason to expect taking away government subsidies to increase prices.”

    Fortunately we can look at examples where subsidies currently exist and where they do not in our current economy. In Private colleges they mostly DO NOT exist, where as in community colleges they mostly DO exist.

    Who’s tuition is higher?
    Community college (living and eating at home) $2,511
    In-state public university $11,879

    Unsubsidized: Private university $24,756-$37,000

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Not True:
    The chicken from KFC is inspected by the USDA.
    “All poultry slaughter facilities are under USDA jurisdiction with an on-site USDA vet. KFC suppliers are required to adhere to all laws related to the slaughter of chickens.”

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    The similarity between Ron Paul and Alan Greenspan is that they both base their understanding (Not Greenspan who has since said his position was wrong) of the economy on a single ideal…The Myth of Self-Responsible and Self-Regulating Capitalism, when in reality only one form of Capitalism can exist ‘Responsible American Capitalism with Checks and Balances and a priority to defend a priceless asset: The American Labor Force’

    Greenspan “Partially … I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interest of organisations, specifically banks, is such that they were best capable of protecting shareholders and equity in the firms … I discovered a flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works. I had been going for 40 years with considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well. The overall view I take of regulation is, I took an oath of office when I became Federal Reserve chairman. I’m here to uphold the laws of the land passed by Congress, not my own predilections.”

  • Anonymous

    That is the point. That government only reacts to social changes/ pressures.  State governments are easier to effect because they are LOCAL.., not one size fits no one federal laws. Just as in colonial times.., slaves fled to Northern STATES, because they held a different view ( freedom ), from the southern states. had there been one federal law they would have had no where to flee.

    “If a Black guy wants to racially discriminate in a private eating
    establishment he should form a private dining club, and NOT a government
    licensed business that provides a “Public accommodation.”  ”
     ”
    “The Congressional Black Caucus isn’t a private business.”

     *****   hmmm.., no contradiction here is there ?

    Viacom being the owner does not change what the station represents.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if any of the other candidates would do as Ron Paul has stated
    “take a salary of only $39 thousand dollars per yeas as president and
    refuse the lavish medical perks congress and the President get”. Pass
    this statement along give the media something to talk about.

  • Anonymous

    CNN REFUSES TO COVER NEWS STORY

    Romney is charged with Racism in Church and Office. All Hard
    Drives Destroyed.2hrs ago

    Romney’s successor as Governor of Massachusetts is the Honorable
    Deval Patrick, a Black who served as chief of the Civil Rights Office of the
    Clinton Administration’s Justice Department. That is the same office that went
    after the Mormon Church’s racist policies in the late seventies. There seems to
    be some serious “bad blood” caused by that. It is a long tradition that when
    inaugurating a new Governor in Massachusetts they have a ceremonial passing of
    the gavel. The outgoing Governor stands and hands over the gavel to the new
    Governor and exits the building as the new Governors stands to the podium and
    delivers his inauguration address. For the first time in history and without
    comment Mitt Romney refused to participate in the ceremony and recognize the
    new Black Governor. That sounds like the old George Wallace or Strom Thurmond
    type of stuff. The people of Massachusetts were outright embarrassed.

    Very recently, well known Black Republican J.C. Watts publicly
    complained that the Romney presidential campaign was absolutely void of Blacks,
    Hispanics or any other ethnicity other than white. It was lily white and this
    needed to be corrected proclaimed the former Black congressman from Oklahoma.
    When approached about J.C.’s comments on CNN News, Mitt Romney retorted,
    “What’s the charge? Is there something wrong with that?” He then explained that
    he hired only the best workers and if that means an all white staff – so be it.
    This, my brother and sisters, is “bigot code”. It is the same thing they would
    say to keep us out of the military, college and professional sports, the better
    public institutions and corporate offices. It wasn’t because of racism but that
    we just weren’t good enough and that’s how God made it. It falls right along
    with the “Cain Curse Doctrine”. Slick haired Romney is starting to appear to be
    very arrogant for all the wrong reasons. It is an aura about him that smells
    anti-American and anti-Christian. He appears to be a blast from the past and
    that is not good for us as a whole and harmonious society.

    Is Mitt Romney a racist? Racial slurs, racist upbringing, racist
    slights, racist hiring and racist excuses – seems like an easy question.

  • Anonymous

    From the looks of it, this legislative action that Ron Paul voted “Aye” on was an amendment to make the proposed holiday date the third Monday in January rather than Jan. 15. This wasn’t a vote on legislation to make King’s birthday a federal holiday.
    Legislation designating King’s birthday as a holiday didn’t pass until 1983. That legislation was H.R. 3706, sponsored by Katie Hall, a Democrat from Indiana.
    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d098:H.R.3706:
    Here’s the tally of the Aug. 2, 1983 House vote…
    TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 3706, A BILL AMENDING TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE TO MAKE THE BIRTHDAY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., A LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY. (MOTION PASSED;2/3 REQUIRED)
    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1983-289
    Ron Paul voted “nay”.

  • Anonymous

    people are the govt? oh lord.you really wish that were true.it is not by any stretch of imagination.the poeple in power are always ‘powerful’ because they can order us around.? sweat shop conditions? how do you know.the asians working in those sweatshops have it better than 95% of their countrymen who are starving or dying because of lack of any work.do you hate the poor asians so much that you’d rather  have them starve than let them earn the few dollars a month they get?you might think it is nice to pontificate from america -sitting ina first world nation.but nt  all people as lucky as you.for some people it is the choice between harsh work or starvation.dont you dare sit in moral  judgment over their sad fate.

  • Anonymous

    are you sure you understand what private property is? a restaurant owned by somebody is a private property.it is not a public institution.public instituitons are owned by the govt.that is why govts should never be allowed to discriminate.you are laboring under the bad assumption that restaurants are public property

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Drax, the underground railroad went to CANADA, because fugitive slave laws still applied in Northern States.

    http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html

    The Congressional Black Caucus is a group. Not a business.

    The content of BET is whatever the executives at Viacom sign off on.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

      Hello? Don’t shower praise and thanks on “people in power” for outsourcing jobs to Asia, when you know damn well it’s a race to the bottom, with absolutely no regard for worker safety, conditions or treatment. Exploitation is exploitation, and it shameful watching people celebrate millionaires becoming billionaires off the mistreatment of others.

      If they could lobby to get a law passed for forced domestic prison labor to replace the cost of shipping and duties from China, at the same hourly rate, they would hop like a kangaroo to do it, without a wink of sleep lost for the plight of the third world.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    If you want to racially restrict who you cook for in your OWN HOUSE, nobody’s stopping you.

     If you want to be open to the public, follow the public laws on the books.

     Why is this so difficult?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    I find the entire idea of specifically giving an entire race special
    privileges, and forcing another race to “like” them regardless of their
    opinions, to be extremely racist.

    The civil rights act practically says all blacks are less fit to work or
    less intelligent than whites, and that whites are forced to deal with
    it because we feel sorry for the poor black race. It is a federally
    mandated insult, and I feel horrible that you, Cobra, are
    endorsing it. Do you honestly feel that I’m such garbage that
    white people need to be forced to hire me?

    I’ve worked for people who disliked blacks (the one who hired me wasn’t
    racist, but the CEO sure as hell was), and he made is hell for me. No amount of federally mandated “kindness” can fix racism; the only way to fix racism
    is to prove we are equal, and right now, the CRA officially states that
    we are not.

    Ron Paul has it absolutely right; the government should not be in the business of forcing the adoption of opinions.

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